Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Religious.

Repository Institution
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Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet

Inv. D2273

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 89mm
Width: 126mm

Wing, left
Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; angel holding a scroll; sheep.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Border of dentils; pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0458

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Liebgott 1985: France (Paris?), end of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Given to the museum by M. Lund in 1887, who had purchased it in Odense, Funen.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), pp. 211, 212; II, no. 458.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), pp. 61-62, fig. 55.

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