Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across, with bands of rosettes (plaquettes; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across, with bands of rosettes (plaquettes; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across, with bands of rosettes (plaquettes; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 154 mm
Width: 162 mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin trampling a winged dragon (basilisk); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin raising both hands; sun and moon; cruciform halo; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross.
Medallions enclosing trefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels. Pointed trefoils inthe gables.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Provenance
Sale, Geble, Radolfzell, 9 November 2013, lot 523.

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