Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych, reused as a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix, plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych, reused as a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix, plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych, reused as a pax), 1 register, 3 arches across (baiser de paix, plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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S'-Heerenberg, Huis Bergh Castle

Inv. 782

Ivory;silver (frame, later)

Height: 137mm
Width: 104mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; two angels holding scrolls; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; sheep.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels; pointed trefoils in the gables.

Utrecht 1987: Flanders (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
's-Heerenberg, 2008: Meuse region or Rhine, 3rd quarter of the 14th century; silver frame: 16th century or 17th century (possibly c. 1580-1600), probably Flanders (Antwerp?)).

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
J. H. van Heek, Huis Bergh: kasteel en collectie, ed. by R. A. A. van Gruting (Nijmegen, 1987), pl. 81.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 25.
A. Kutsch Lojenga-Rietberg, Huis Bergh: kasteel - kunst - geschiedenis (s'-Heerenberg, 2000), p. 134.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 42-43), pl. 19.

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