Gothic Ivories Project | Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Side 2

Side 1

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 92mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 6mm

Side 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin. Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with two faces in the spandrels.
Side 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (background of the Coronation scene).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Two holes on one side.

Provenance
Private collection, London (in 2010)(bought from Sotheby's, London, 9 April 2003, lot 5).

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