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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
natmus.dk

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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. D8704

Ivory

Height: 82mm
Width: 56mm

Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers; musician angels (string instruments).
Pointed trefoils in spandrels and arches; border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0618

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Liebgott 1985: Paris, 1330-1350.
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, 1330-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Purchased by the Nationalmuseet in 1915.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 219; II, no. 618.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 57-58, fig. 53.

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