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Openwork panel (fragments of a casket), 8 arches across (plaque ajourée; coffret) (Front)

Openwork panel (fragments of a casket), 8 arches across (plaque ajourée; coffret) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.222

Ivory

Height: 55mm
Width: 16mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Two Magi; attendants with horses; attendant shoeing a horse. Nativity. Massacre of the Innocents.
Border of dentils; pierced trefoils.

Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: North French or Flemish (?), 15th or 19th century.


Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Comments
Part of the same ensemble as Inv. 71.223-71.229, also in Baltimore. See related objects.

Provenance
Bought together with 71.223-71.229 in Paris in 1923 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 125-127, fig. 27).


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