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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front (open))
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front (open))
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Wing, left

Wing, right

Wing, right

Wing, left

Front

Links

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;silver (hinges)

Height: 120mm
Width: 142mm
Depth: 20mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

London 1923: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Eroded.

Provenance
Said to have been part of the Joseph Homberg collection, Paris. Collection of Sir Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926): sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 11 May 1923. Paris, Hôtel Drouot, c. 1965, lot 11; private collection, France (c. 1965-2007). Sale, Paris, 19 June 1970, lot 11. Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 23. Bernard Descheemaeker Works of Art, Antwerp (February 2010).

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 125, pl. XXXVII.


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