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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu

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Wellesley (Massachusetts), Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center

1964.35

Ivory

Height: 86mm
Width: 64mm

Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.

Randall 1993: French (North France?), mid-14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Ivory is dark brown in colour. Cracked. Parts of lower border missing. Gouge in the right border, probably for missing clasp.

Comments
Randall (1993) notes that it is unusual to find the scene of the Dormition in the right wing of a diptych, as it is traditionally on the left, opposite the Coronation.

Provenance
Bought from Mathias Komor, New York, in 1964.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 73.


Image

© Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley (Mass.).
Credit Line: Museum purchase in honor of Professor Agnes A. Abbot, 1964.35.

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