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Openwork panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (plaquette ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (plaquette ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 93mm
Width: 50mm

Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Joseph asleep; swaddled Christ; midwife placing a pillow under the Virgin's head.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Vertical break in the middle of the upper arcature.

Provenance
Cassel collection, Paris: Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1956, lot 223. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 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.116, p. 32.


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