Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 11/82

Ivory

Height: 112mm
Width: 62mm

Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Darmstadt and Munich 1999 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: haloes.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges (restored). The holes of the hinges have been plugged.

Provenance
Acquired in 1982 from H. Mooshage, Hannover.

Bibliography
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 39.

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