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Diptych, 1 register, 3 paired arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 paired arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 106mm
Width: 64mm
Depth: 11mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross.
Beaded border. Pinnacles.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Baron Ribeyre et Associés, Drouot, Paris, 27 March 2009, lot 122. Private collection, London (bought from A&E Foster, 11 May 2009); Sotheby's, London, 2 July 2013, lot 6.


Image

© Private collection, London.

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