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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Width: 60mm

Coronation of the Virgin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 0527

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


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 475 (ill. on p. 64) (purchased by Stettiner). Collection of Alexandre Léonce Rosenberg (b. 1877, d. 1947): his sale, Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1924, lot 82. Collection of Paul R. G. Horst, Paris: Christie's, London, 28 November 1961, lot 77, pl. XIX.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 210; II, no. 527.


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