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Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. 852

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 58mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Destrée 1902: France, 14th century.
Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Stains in the lower part of the panel.

Object Condition
Two holes in the middle on the right side of the panel.

Provenance
Given by baron De Roisin in 1860.

Bibliography
J. Destrée, Catalogue des ivoires, des objets en nacre en os gravé et en cire peinte (Brussels, 1902), no. 23 (7211).
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, p. 25, no. 281, pl. CXXVI, fig. 267.


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