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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 60mm (each)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angels crowning the Virgin; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and the moon; rugged cross.
Monsters in the spandrels. Pointed trefoils in the gables.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 December 1981, lot 24.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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