Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (CAST, front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (CAST, front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 82mm
Width: 70mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; angel holding a scroll; sheep.
Pointed trefoils in the gables.

Westwood 1876: French (?), 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and the photograph on this page is a photograph of this cast (Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 235).

Provenance
Collection of Vicomte de Genzé (also spelt 'Janzé'), Paris (in 1876).

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 430 ('55.74), Appendix, p. 401.

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