Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 177mm

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; cruciform halo; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the left border of the left wing.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1970, lot 8 ('the property of a religious order').

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