Gothic Ivories Project | 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)

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr

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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 433

Ivory

Height: 76mm
Width: 49mm
Depth: 6mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions: '1015 ', '1016' and '26'.

Object Condition
Hole visible from the back.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 433.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1016.

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