Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Width: 52mm

Crucifixion; Virgin with one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Incised trefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Circular recess on the reverse (32mm in diameter).

Object Condition
Missing: upper left corner.Modern hole pierced in the finial of the central gable.

Provenance
Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 28-29 January 1959, lot 254; Ernest Brummer collection: his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 84.

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