Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 177mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei).
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of S. E. Lucas (exhibited at Rochester Cathedral in May-June 1954): Christie's, London, 7-9 May 1956, lot 341.

Image

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