Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and moon; monster at the foot of the cross; cruciform halo.
Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Four silver corner pieces (possibly 17th century).

Provenance
Collection of Professor A. Gilbert, Paris: sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1 December 1927, lot 66. Collection of Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit: given by him to the Institute in 1943.

Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 60.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 91.

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