Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (including 1 ogee arch) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (including 1 ogee arch) (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (including 1 ogee arch) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 101mm
Width: 127mm

Saint Peter holding a key; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a martyr's palm and a broken wheel; saint Paul with a sword.
Quatrefoils enclosing the symbols of the Evangelists (lion, calf, angel, eagle). Tracery.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
Mounted as a triptych, with two wings.

Provenance
Collection of Robert Napier (b. 1791, d. 1876), West Shandon (Dumbartonshire): sale, 14 May 1877, lot 2097. Collection of James Gurney: sale , 8 March 1898, lot 162 (Duveen vs. J. L. Propert.). Collection of J. E. Taylor: sale, 1 July 1912, lot 83 (centre panel only) (Macomber).

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