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Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)
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Front

Wing, left

Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 95mm
Width: 110mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Incised trefoils.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1987, lot 16.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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