Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the sun and the moon; rugged cross; titulus.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with wild man faces in the spandrels. Pointed trefoil in the gable.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: front part of the crown in the left wing.

Provenance
In Altenburg (Germany), c. 1924.

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