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Openwork pendant (ajouré) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

57.599

Ivory;silver (frame);tortoise shell (backing)

Height: 48mm

Standing Virgin and Child; saint Margaret emerging from the dragon, holding a crucifix.

Museum's opinion 2011: England, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Hidden by the tortoise shell backing.

Comments
This piece, judging from the remaining hinge on the left side, either formed diptych with another openwork ivory scene on the left, or had a cover closing over it.

Provenance
Collection of Nicolas E. Landau, Paris: sold by Landau to the Museum of Fine Arts for $600 in 1957 (Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour).

Image

Photograph © 15 July 2012 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Credit Line: Theodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour.

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