Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Front

Detail, front

Links

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.vaticanstate.va

Rome, Vatican, Museo Storico Artistico della Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano - Museo del Tesoro

S/n

Ivory

Height: 147 mm
Width: 78 mm (each)
Depth: 8 mm
Weight: 262.5 g

Wing, left
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; blessing gesture; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; titulus.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: French, 1st half of the 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Ink inscription on the back of the right wing: ‘BHO’.

Provenance
Donated by Charles de Gaulle to Pope Paul VI after the opening of the Museum by Paul VI in 1975.

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