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Openwork panel, 2 registers, 2 compartments across (plaque ajourée) (Front)
Openwork panel, 2 registers, 2 compartments across (plaque ajourée) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 384

Ivory;wood (later frame)

Height: 80mm (including frame)
Width: 62mm

Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds. Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Visitation. Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.

Brussels 1964: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side of the wooden frame.

Reverse
Hidden by the wooden frame.
Erased inscriptions, possibly including '3277'.

Comments
The frame has marks of two hinges on the right side indicating that this plaque was later used as part of a diptych.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 268.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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