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Gabled panel, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Gabled panel, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 2760

Ivory

Height: 120 mm
Width: 58 mm
Depth: 9 mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges (?) on the left side.

Reverse
The back of this panel is projecting forward so that its cross section is triangular. Smooth.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Surface damaged. Upper part broken and glued.
Figures worn. Discolouration.

Provenance
Collection of the Counts Shuvalov, Saint Petersburg; collection of the Shuvalov House Museum, Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]; tranferred to the Hermitage in 1924.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 77.


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