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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

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

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 427

Ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 7mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin wringing her hands; sun and moon; clouds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0417

Gruyer 1902: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions '20', '1010' and '427'.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 427.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 205; II, no. 417.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1010.


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