Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

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Prague, Museum of Decorative Arts

Inv. 4653

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 63mm
Weight: 91.4g

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; cushion.
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Smooth; longer edges chamfered.

Object Condition
Missing: upper right corner; Christ's right hand in the Crucifixion scene.
Broken around the lower hinge. Numerous later holes.

Provenance
Collection of Jan of Neuberg: his bequest to the museum in 1892.

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