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

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

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 164mm
Width: 114mm
Depth: 9mm

Adoration of the Magi; angel holding a star.
Pointed trefoils; pinnacles.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.

Provenance
B. Hochon collection: sold, 11 June 1903, lot 23. Dormeuil collection, Paris: sold, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 10.

Bibliography
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 122.


Image

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