Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 96mm
Width: 46mm

Wing, left
Virgin and Child with saint Margaret (Vierge Glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; Christ seated on left arm; tender gesture of Christ touching with his right hand the Virgin's chin; saint Margaret rising from the dragon, holding a crucifix.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John; Virgin with hands clasped; saint John the Evangelist holding a book; Sun and Moon.
Medallions containing trefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges

Object Condition
Right wing partly broken in the upper right corner and lower left corner.

Provenance
Collection of HRH Joseph-Clemens, Prince of Bavaria. Collection of Jules Frésart, castle of Flone. Brimo de Laroussilhe catalogue, Paris, 1993. Blumka Gallery-Julius Böhler-Brimo de Laroussilhe, Collecting Treasures of the Past, New York, Blumka Gallery, January-February 2002, no. 41.

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