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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.suermondt-ludwig-museum.de

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Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum

SK 84 (lost)

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 53mm

Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; altar decorated with a pierced rounded trefoil.
Pinnacles.

Schweitzer 1910: Rhenish or French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (background).

Provenance
Leonardt Collection, Cologne (until 1873); acquired by Dr. Peter Wings, Aachen; donation to the Suermondt-Museum in 1886 or bequest in 1893.

Bibliography
H. Schweitzer, Die Skulpturen-Sammlung im Städtischen Suermondt-Museum zu Aachen (Aachen, 1910), I (text), p. 84; II/III (plates), pl. 64.

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