Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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

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

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Religious. Life of Christ.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29460

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 98.3mm
Width: 67mm (closed); 160mm (open)
Depth: 7.5mm
Weight: 162g

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Museum's opinion 2008: Paris, last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (background).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Some crosshatching along the edges.

Object Condition
Hole in each corner.

Provenance
Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired from Blumka Gallery, New York, 30 January 1998; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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