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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 436

Ivory

Height: 73mm
Width: 54mm
Depth: 6mm

Presentation in the Temple with Virgin holding Christ; hanging lamp. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and the moon; rugged cross.
Beaded border.


Koechlin Number: 0441

Gruyer 1902: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Paris 1930: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions: '436', '1019', '29'.

Object Condition
Holes in the upper part of the panel (plugged). Vertical crack along the right side of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 436.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 207; II, no. 441.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1019.


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