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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Besançon, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

Inv. D.863.4.78 bis

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 8mm

Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes; angel; sheep.
Pinnacles.

Tardy 1966: late 13th-early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France (?), 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges rounded.
Label with handwritten inscription: 'Portion d'oratoire de poche en ivoire sur laquelle on voit une Annonciation aux bergers. Cet ouvrage peut dater du 12e ou du 13e siècle'. Pencil inscription above: 'Cette écriture est de Bruand' [this hand is that of Bruand].

Object Condition
Faces of both shepherds chipped.
Two holes in the background.

Provenance
Bequest of Jean-Jacques Bruand in 1863.

Bibliography
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 27.


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