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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Private collection, London (in 2015)

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Ivory;silver (hinges)

Height: 92mm
Width: 110mm (open)
Depth: 19 mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0390

Koechlin 1912: France, late 13th-early 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Small crack in the bottom left corner of the right wing.
Broken around the hinges.
Missing: candles originally held by the angels.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyons. Collection of Raphael Stora, New York. Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1999, lot 40. Private collection, London (in 2015; bought from Sam Fogg, London, 13 November 2000).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 4.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 390.


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