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Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as part of a diptych (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as part of a diptych (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 89mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Pointed trefoils.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Numerous holes.

Comments
This panel has been mounted in a frame with another panel but there is no evidence that these two pieces originally formed a diptych.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1974, lot 11.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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