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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Warsaw, Museum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum)

Inv. SZM 1439

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 91mm
Depth: 8mm

Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin lying with her head to the right.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pilasters.

Koechlin Number: 0357

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: Paris, c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Originally in the Schlesisches Museum für Kunstgewerbe und Altertümer, Breslau (Wrocław); brought to the National Museum in Warsaw in 1945.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 186; II, no. 357 (in Breslau).
P. Ratkowska, 'Un volet de diptyque inconnu du 14e siècle au Musée National de Varsovie', in Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie, XXIV-1 (1983), pp. 7-15.

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