Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; cruciform halo.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: yellow (architecture).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Vertical cracks. Ink inscription on the back of the right wing: 'Com[...] du XV'(?).

Object Condition
Missing: flower held by the Virgin (left wing) and some fingers of her right hand (right wing); candles (replaced).
Vertical break across saint John the Evangelist's arm (right wing).
Central hole in the upper part of each wing.

Provenance
E. Vaïsse Collection (1885, no. 8). Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I.B. Supino, Catalogo del Regio Museo nazionale di Firenze, (Rome, 1898), p. 230, no. 104.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 329-337.

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