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Gabled panel (wing, right; fragment of a diptych or polyptych), 2 registers, 1 arch and 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)
Gabled panel (wing, right; fragment of a diptych or polyptych), 2 registers, 1 arch and 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr

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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 423

Ivory

Height: 140mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 7mm

Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead under a trefoil arch (Christ in Glory); Christ displaying his wounds; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; spear; cross); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions: '1006', '423', '16'. Faded inscriptions: '435 IS & GAS' and 'mss'.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 423
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1006.


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