Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 80mm

Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp.
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the Sun and the Moon.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Brown.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel for hanging (later).

Provenance
Collection of Caspar and Stephan Bourgeois, art dealers, Cologne: sold, Lempertz, Cologne, 19-27 October 1904, lot 1085. Sold, 2 February 1909, lot 99 (E. Phillips).

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