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Diptych, 3 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 3 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Wing, left)
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Wing, right

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Legend of the Death of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation of the Virgin's death by an angel (Gabriel) with a palm branch. Saint John receives the palm from the Virgin.
Register 2: the miraculous transportation of the apostles, bringing them to the Virgin's deathbed (?); saint Peter holding a key; saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 3: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles asleep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Assumption; Virgin's body borne to Heaven; musician angels (portable organl; string instruments; psaltery); kneeling male figures.
Register 3: funeral procession of the Virgin; the high priest Jechonias is punished for trying to overturn Mary's bier: his hands stick to it.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down the two upper registers of the right wing.


Image

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