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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Religious.

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Worcester (Massachusetts), Worcester Museum of Art

1919.230

Ivory

Height: 107mm
Width: 74mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin raising her hands; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: North French, 1340-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Lower border chipped.

Comments
Randall (1993) identifies the piece as originating from the same workshop as three leaves from diptychs, in Indiana University Art Museum (72.100.3), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (37.DV.3) and Lyman Allyn Art Museum (1952.122).

Provenance
Bought from Philip J. Gentner, Florence, in 1919.

Bibliography
Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar (October 1953), p. 1.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 81.


Image

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Credit Line: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, Museum purchase, 1919.230.

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