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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
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La Spezia, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia

A43

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 62mm
Depth: 6mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; one of the Holy Women; onlooker holding a scroll; rugged cross.
Crosshatched background. Pointed trefoils in the gables and spandrels.

Giusti 1999: Northern France (?), beginning of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side. Trace of a later hinge between the two original ones.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of glue. Numerous labels: '1063', 'coll. Ernest Brummer [...] 62', '[...]55'.

Object Condition
Later central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Emile Baboin. Collection of Ernest Brummer (bought from the Collector's Corner, New York, 8 March 1962): his sale, Galerie Koller and Spink and Son, Zürich, 16-19 October 1979, lot 82.

Bibliography
P. Giusti in Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: Sculture e oggetti d'arte (I cataloghi del Museo Civico Amedeo Lia), ed. by M. Ratti and A. Marmori (La Spezia, 1999), no. 2.34.


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