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Centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 1 register (Front)

Centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 1 register (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100 mm
Width: 140 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; soldiers; banners. 


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (hair; beards) and polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Trace of a cross shape.
Inscription: '194', and ‘…lent by Mr Lucas, No 11’, written in a mid-19th-century hand.

Provenance
May have belonged to Richard Cockle Lucas (b. 1800, d. 1883), a sculptor, ivory carver and wax modeller and a connoisseur of medieval art (see inscription on the reverse). Sam Fogg, London, in July 2014.


Image

© Sam Fogg Ltd, 2014.

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