Gothic Ivories Project | Centre panel (fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (colonnettes; tabernacle) (Front)

Centre panel (fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (colonnettes; tabernacle) (Front)

Centre panel (fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (colonnettes; tabernacle) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 160 mm
Width: 52 mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Christ in a long robe; blessing gesture; crown.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles; colonnettes (replaced).

Comments
This originally would have had two wings closing onto the centre panel.

Provenance
Collection of M. Mantes. Sale, Paris, 5 March 1963, lot 153.

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