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

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

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

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Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 80mm
Width: 114mm (open)

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; shepherd with a musical instrument (trumpet).
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Lowden 2013: North France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two metal hinges.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1980, lot 32.

Bibliography
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 76, fig. 41, in relation to no. 10.

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