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

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

Wing, right (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: 88mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side

Object Condition
Pierced at the upper and lower right corners.
Several holes in the left border.

Provenance
Collection of Robert Horst, Esq. (from the collection formed by the late Paul R. G. Horst): Christie's, London, 4 December 1962, lot 191.

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