Gothic Ivories Project | 5 panels (fragments of a box or tabernacle), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

5 panels (fragments of a box or tabernacle), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

5 panels (fragments of a box or tabernacle), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Unknown location

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Ivory or bone

Panel 1: Flight into Egypt; tree; swaddled Christ.
Panel 2: Adoring Magi (fragment from an Adoration of the Magi scene).
Panel 3: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging canopy.
Panel 4: Annunciation to the Virgin; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Panel 5: Visitation; tree.
Crosshatched background. Foliated decoration in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Alfred André, restorer of art works, Paris: his sale, Paris, 23-24 April 1920, lot 235.

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