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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 109mm
Width: 76mm

Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 0461

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Sulzbach collection, Paris (in 1924). Von Bonstetten collection, Noville. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 211, 212; II, no. 461; III, pl. LXXXVIII.
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.60, p. 22.


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