Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.fordhouse.org

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Grosse Point Shores (Michigan), Edsel and Eleanor Ford House

Inv. 1986.44

Ivory

Height: 125mm
Width: 67mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; two angels holding navettes and censers in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: French (Paris?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Left-hand corners chipped; two holes in the upper part of the panel (plugged).
Missing: candles held by the angels.

Provenance
Collection of Edsel Ford (b. 1893, d. 1943) and Eleanor Ford (b. 1896, d. 1976).

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 65.

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