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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Bruges, Bruggemuseum-Gruuthuse

Inv. 0.2.VIII

Ivory;ebony (frame)

Height: 128mm
Width: 87mm
Depth: 10mm (with frame)

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture. Saint Michael and the devil; shield.
Register 2: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; saint Andrew with a saltire cross; saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife; saint Judas (?) with a spear.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; border of dentils.

Leeuwenberg 1969 and Bruges 2010: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century or 1st half of the 19th century.


Attribution
Atelier of the Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Hidden by the frame.

Provenance
Donated to the Antiquarian Society by Albert Visart de Bocarmé (b. 1868, d. 1947), historiographer and numismatist.

Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp 129-130, fig. 29).
S. Vandenberghe, Ivory in Bruges: Treasures from museums, churches and monasteries, exhibition catalogue, Bruges, 2010, pp. 36-37.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 610-11, in relation to no. 188 and p. 613, no. 189.


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