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

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

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 165mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, kneeling on corbels.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Incised trefoils.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 9 December 1993, lot 21.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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