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

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

Subject
Religious.


Private collection, London (in 2015)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 125 mm
Width: 85 mm
Depth: 5 mm

Crucifixion; Virgin and Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; angel crying.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two (?) missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of glue left by various labels.

Provenance
Private collection, Belgium. A. & E. Foster, Naphill, art dealer, in June 2009. Private collection, London; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 25 (not sold); private collection, London (in 2015).


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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