Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 77mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; soldier with a shield with a face; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: Franco-Flemish, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner.

Provenance
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Giraud Foster (in 1993; bought in London in 1965)

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 144.

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