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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.213

Ivory;silver gilt, filigree, cabochon stones and pastes (modern frame).

Height: 66mm
Width: 49mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
Maybe intended to decorate a book cover. 19th-century frame made in the style of the 13th century.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Emile Rey in New York in 1913; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 294.

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