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.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 86mm
Width: 57mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; sheep.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Sprinz 1925: French, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 5173). Robert von Hirsch collection: sale, Sotheby's, 22 June 1978, lot 283.

Bibliography
F. A. von Lehner, Fürstlich Hohenzollern'sches Museum zu Sigmaringen. Verzeichniss der Schnitzwerke, 5 vols (Sigmaringen, 1871-1874), no. 329.
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollernschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), no. 13, fig. 7.

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