Gothic Ivories Project | Lid (fragment of a casket), 6 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Lid (fragment of a casket), 6 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Lid (fragment of a casket), 6 arches across (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

70.455

Ivory;brass (16th or 17th-century fittings)

Height: 97mm
Width: 54mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation. Adoration of the Magi.

Randall 1993: French (Paris), 1360-1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill to the Institute in 1970.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 228, in relation to no. 338.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 99.

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