Gothic Ivories Project | 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)

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

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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Ivory

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; sun and moon; clouds.
Register 2: Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; sheep.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Trens 1945: France, c. 1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Provenance
Collection Cabot (Barcelona).

Bibliography
M. Trens, Arte en la Pasión de Nuestro Señor (siglos XIII al XVII), exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, 1945, p. 32, no. 64.
M.-M. Estella Marcos, La Escultura de marfil en España románica y gótica (Madrid, 1984), pp. 200-201.

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