Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

Panel, 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 105mm
Width: 80mm

Immaculate Conception; Virgin praying; God the Father with papal tiara making a blessing gesture; orb.
Symbols of the Immaculate Conception accompanied by inscriptions: the sun, the moon, the star, the Heavenly Gate, the lily, the roses, the tower of David, the cedar tree, the olive tree, the well of living water, the blossoming branch of the Tree of Jesse, the mirror, the fountain, the enclosed garden, and the City of God.
Roped border.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Broken in the lower part.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 December 1981, lot 60.

Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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