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Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (modern hinges;clasps)

Height: 160mm
Width: 200mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Coronation of the Virgin; two angels swinging censers, standing on the sides of the bench.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 24 April 1956, lot 77. Kofler-Truniger collection (in 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.76.


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