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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (CAST, front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (CAST, front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 139mm
Width: 101mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the Sun and the Moon; rugged cross.
Small monsters (dragons) decorating the arches. Angels holding crowns in the spandrels.

Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: crown held by the angel.

Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and the photograph on this page is a photograph of this cast (Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 289a-b).

Provenance
Collection of Albert Way, Esquire (in 1876).

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 434-435 (`58.36-37).


Image

Conway Library IVORY CASTS © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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