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Wing, left (fragment of diptych), 2 registers, 2 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of diptych), 2 registers, 2 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ. Passion.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 90mm

Register 1: Flagellation; whips. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity; hanging lamp.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1370.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
The hinges miters have been filled with some substance.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
Katalog Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue, Basel, 1951, no. 27.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.81, p. 26.
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. 588, in relation to no. 175.


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