Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 78 mm
Width: 64 mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding Christ (Virgo lactans); swaddled Christ; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; angel holding a scroll; sheep.
Beaded border.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: painted fleur-de-lis in the spandrels and gables.

Provenance
Collection of James Fredrick Hutton (b. 1826, d. 1890); F.R.C Hutton and by descent. Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1989, lot 20.

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