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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 107mm

Wing, left
Saint Agnes with a book, a martyr's palm and a lamb; standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Christ holding a fruit in his left hand; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a wheel and martyr's palm.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Incised trefoils.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two metal hinges

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 17 December 1964, lot 78.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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