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Relief (fragment of a tabernacle or altarpiece; appliqué) (Front (right))
Relief (fragment of a tabernacle or altarpiece; appliqué) (Front (right))
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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29503

Ivory

Height: 119.7mm (left); 121.8mm (right)
Width: 54.2mm (left); 54.6mm (right)
Depth: 5.7mm (left); 11.3mm (right)
Weight: 41g (left); 67g (right)

Left: soldiers holding weapons.
Right: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas).

Lowden 2008 and Museum's opinion 2008: Northern France, c. 1325-1375 (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy, especially in the hair.

Reverse
Uncarved. Some crosshatching; traces of glue.

Object Condition
Missing: lamp held by figure on left of betrayal group.

Comments
Carved on thin curving panels.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 December 1987, lot 18 (unsold); Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Maria Baer, London, in 1988; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 35.


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