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Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Saints.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 55mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon. 
Register 2: tonsured cleric kneeling in donor position (monk?); standing Virgin and Child; unidentified tonsured saint with crozier; angel swinging a censer.
Incised trefoils.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Reverse divided into compartments.

Object Condition
Central holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 December 1981, lot 22.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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