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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
www.landesmuseum-stuttgart.de

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Stuttgart, Landesmuseum Württemberg

Inv. WLM 1968-765

Ivory;silver (hinges)

Height: 70mm
Width: 50mm

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; musician shepherd playing a wind instrument.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 2nd half of the 14th century


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
two silver hinges

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
In each wing, a drill hole at the top of the central gable; narrow cracks; a deep crack in the right wing.

Provenance
Collection Edwin Oppler, Hannover: his sale, Berlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 25 February 1913, lot 138; purchased in 1913 by the Landesgewerbemuseum at the Oppler sale; transferred to the Württembergische Landesmuseum Stuttgart in 1968.

Bibliography
Königliches Landesgewerbemuseum, Bericht über das Jahr (Stuttgart, 1913), p. 61.


Image

© Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart. Foto: H. Zwietasch.

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