Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

Openwork diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

Openwork diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 381

Ivory;black marble (later background);silver (later fittings).

Height: 45mm
Width: 38mm (each)

Wing, left
Saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell; Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; saint Anthony abbot standing in flames.
Wing, right
Saint Michael and the devil; saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; saint George and the dragon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Brussels 1964: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the silver frame.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, p. 325 (in relation to no. 868).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 277.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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