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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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Subject
Religious.

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Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges and nail)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Object Condition
Nail at the apex of the central arch of each wing.
Missing: halo of Christ (crosshatching where the halo would have been glued).

Provenance
Collection of M. Camusat de Vaugourdon in 1857 (see see Paris, Bibliothèque du Musée des arts décoratifs, Maciet Album 325/10-93). Guy Ladrière collection, Paris. Private collection, London: bought from Sam Fogg, 9 June 2005.

Bibliography
Portefeuille archéologique de la Champagne 1857, with ill.


Image

© Private Collection, London.
Digital photograph

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