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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

G 126

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 65mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Dijon 1917: France, 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the left border and background. The right edge seems to have been filed in the middle.

Provenance
Collection of Henri and Sophie Grangier; Grangier bequest in 1905.

Bibliography
L. Gaitet, Catalogue de la collection Henri et Sophie Grangier: peintures, sculptures, meubles, objets d'art (Dijon, 1917), no. 126.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 12.


Image

© Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. Photography: François Jay.

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