Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 95mm
Width: 50mm
Depth: 8mm

Register 1: Pentecost; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; cruciform halo; Sun and Moon.
Border of dentils. Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Broken around the lower hinge.

Comments
The left wing of this diptych is probably Christie's, London, 1 July 1997, lot 158 (in a private collection in London in 2015). See related items.

Provenance
Kenneth Thomson collection. Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, lot 15. Private collection, London: bought, Sam Fogg, London, 23 April 2003.

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