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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 150 mm
Width: 98 mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350-1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Provenance
Collection of the Marquis de Ganay, Paris. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 5.

Bibliography
L'Apocalypse, Tapissieren aus der Kathedrale in Angers, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel, 1951, no. 26.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1964, no. 751, p. 82.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.88.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 31 (1965), pp. 26-27, no. S 88.


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