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Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)
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Front

Wing, left

Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasp)

Height: 173mm
Width: 170mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi spreading over the two wings).
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; part of the Adoration of the Magi spreading over the two wings); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: Mosan (?), 1340-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair, beards, architectural details, along the hems, crowns), green (cross).

Provenance
Robert von Hirsch collection: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 289. Private collection, Scarsdale, New York (in 1993).

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 84.


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