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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

BK-NM-7343

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 90mm
Depth: 6mm

Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon. Coronation of the Virgin.


Koechlin Number: 0329

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down the right side of the panel (glued back into place).
Brown stains along the edges.

Provenance
Koninklijke Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden, The Hague; transferred to Amsterdam in 1883.

Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), no. 24.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), no. 19.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174, II, no. 329.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 775.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, pp. 142-143, no. 55.


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