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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 158mm
Width: 99mm

Register 1: Nativity with midwife; Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Holy Women.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0354

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel (later).
The right arm of the Virgin in the Nativity scene is a later restoration (see 1924 photograph).

Provenance
Collection of M. Daguerre. Auspitz collection (in 1924). Maurice Berard collection: Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1990, lot 4.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 184, 187, 211; II, no. 354; III, pl. LXXXI.


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© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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