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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 77mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Upper right corner chipped.

Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Sale, Lucerne, June 1953: bought by Mr Kofler; collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (at least until 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.66, p. 23.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 574-5, in relation to no. 168.


Image

© Fonds Demotte at The Cloisters Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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