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

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

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

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Front

Wing, left

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 165mm
Width: 119mm (each)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks; two angels swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the sun and the moon.

Williamson 2005: Probably German (Lower Rhine), c. 1350-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Cracks on the Crucifixion panel.

Provenance
Meyer family, France. Private collection, London: bought from Sotheby's, London, 14 December 2001, lot 16.

Bibliography
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 33.

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