Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

Lost or destroyed

Ivory

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; two angels holding the sun and the moon; two angels crying; titulus; rugged cross.
Capitals decorated with animal heads (monster heads).
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils; pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0596

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Numerous cracks.

Provenance
Collection of the Grand Dukes of Hesse, Darmstadt (in 1924). Possibly lost or destroyed during WWII.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 220, 221; II, no. 596; III, pl. CII.

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