Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

CA T 341

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 115mm
Width: 140mm (open)

Wing, left
Saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm; standing Virgin and Child; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; cruciform halo; titulus.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels; border of dentils.

Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: donated by them to the Museum in 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 341.
De Madonna in de Kunst, 1954, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1954, no. 282.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 8.

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