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

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 387

Ivory;silver (hinges)

Height: 70mm
Width: 45mm (each)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Brussels 1964: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (cloak of saint John).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
Both panels were made from the same tusk.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 278.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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