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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 117mm
Width: 90mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; two rams fighting; dog.
Pinnacles.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Two later holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Possibly collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 273 (description and measurements correspond). Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 14-15 April 1910, lot 14 (purchased by Leman). Collection of Paul R. G. Horst, Paris: Christie's, London, 28 November 1961, lot 80. Sotheby's, 29 March 1979, lot 35.


Image

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