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

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych; upper register), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (CAST, front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych; upper register), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Width: 103mm

Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint John the Evangelist.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the left side.

Comments
This fragment was certainly originally the upper register of the right wing of a diptych. A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and the photograph on this page is a photograph of this cast (Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 236).

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Conway Library IVORY CASTS © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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