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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 177mm
Width: 97mm

Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; sheep; swaddled Christ.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation.

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


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat. Incised inscription: '1514'.

Object Condition
Broken around the lower hinge.

Provenance
F. Neuburg collection, Tel Aviv. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
Katalog Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue (Basel, 1951), no. 20.
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.91, p. 28.


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