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

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

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

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29116

Ivory

Height: 188mm
Width: 119.6mm
Depth: 11.3mm
Weight: 328g

Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pinnacles.

Museum's opinion 2008: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of painted tracery in the spandrels.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Holes coinciding with the upper hinge.

Object Condition
Very brown.

Provenance
Thomson Collection, Toronto: bought from Phillips, London, 11 December 1996, lot 126; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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