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Triptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)

Triptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Verdun, Notre-Dame cathedral

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 130mm
Width: 88mm (closed); 176mm (open)

Wing, left
Soldiers; man in fashionable dress.
Centre panel
Coronation of the Virgin by the Trinity; dove of the Holy Spirit; resurrected Christ with crown of thorns.
Wing, right
Soldiers.
Medallions with trefoils in the spandrels; pointed trefoils; twisted columns; capitals in the shape of animals; tracery.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed June 2012].


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