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

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

Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Wing, left

Wing, right

Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

Subject
Religious.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

107530

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 74.7mm
Width: 48mm (closed); 96mm (open)
Depth: 7.1mm
Weight: 63g

Wing, left
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross.
Wing, right
Coronation of the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of original gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Anton Josef Essingh (b. 1787, d. 1864), Cologne: his sale, Heberle, Cologne, 18 September 1865, lot 874. Collection of Eugen Felix: sale, Cologne, 25 October 1886, lot 316. Collection of William Redford, London. Collection of Paul R. G. Horst, Paris: Christie's, London, 28 November 1961, lot 79, pl. XX. Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired from Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1979, lot 34; since 2008 The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.


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