Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Inv. F 9

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 60mm
Width: 85mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 39.4g

Wing, left
Saint Laurence holding a gridiron; standing Virgin and Child; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koekkoek 1987: 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, c. 1325-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges. One is broken.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of J. W. Frederiks, on loan to the Rotterdam Museum (in 1987); donated to the Museum in 1994.

Bibliography
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), p. 36, fig. 21.

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