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

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

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 145mm
Width: 101mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist, and onlookers.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Object Condition
Two pairs of holes in the centre of the panel.
Broken around the hinges.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 20 March 1959, lot 22. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964). Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 2012)(M.-A. Carlier, Art du Moyen Age XIe-XIVe siècle, Paris, Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, 12 September-31 October 2012, no. 29).

Bibliography
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 7 June-2 August 1964, no. 750, p. 82.
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.87, p. 27.


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