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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 421

Ivory

Height: 129mm
Width: 84mm
Depth: 9mm

Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel, sword, and martyr's palm.
Pointed trefoils in the gables; pinnacles.


Koechlin Number: 0573

Gruyer 1902: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (robes).

Reverse
Flat and smooth, with a few scratches. Labels with inscriptions: '1004', '421' '14'.

Object Condition
Later holes in the upper part of the panel.

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. 421.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 199, 219; II, no. 573.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1004.


Image

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