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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

93.158

Ivory;iron (remains of one hinge)

Height: 165mm
Width: 94mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2011: English, 1330-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Broken borders on both sides. Cracked.

Provenance
Younge collection, London (at least from 1857): label dated 1864 and inscribed 'Mr. Younge's collection'. Collection of W. and T. Bateman, Youlgrave, Derby, England: Bateman sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 April 1893, lot 45 (Anonymous gift to the Museum of Fine Arts).

Bibliography
Handbook of the Museum of Fines Arts, Boston (Boston, 1906), p. 122.
Arts of the Middle Ages 1000-1400, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1940, no. 133.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 70.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.
Credit Line: Anonymous Gift.

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