Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork diptych, 1 register (plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

Openwork diptych, 1 register (plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

Openwork diptych, 1 register (plaquettes ajourées) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Unknown location

S/n

Silver (frame);mother-of-pearl (frame);ivory

Height: 27mm
Width: 46 mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child; saint Margaret holding a martyr's palm; crown.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross.

Williamson and Davies 2014: probably German (Lower Rhenish?), late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Silver and mother-of-pearl frame.

Provenance
Collection of James Frederick Hutton (b. 1826, d. 1890), Manchester. Blumka Gallery, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 20).

Bibliography
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 454, fig. 1, in relation to no. 155.

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