Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, The Academy of the New Church, The Glencairn Museum

04.CR.41

Ivory

Height: 83mm
Width: 53mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; sun and moon.
Pinnacles.

Randall 1993: Rhenish (?), 4th quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Large hole in the centre.

Provenance
Probably acquired by Raymond Pitcairn in 1927.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 156.

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