Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

Lost or destroyed

Ivory

Height: 170mm
Width: 110mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0412

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Polychromy.

Provenance
Collection of the Grand Dukes of Hesse, Darmstadt (in 1924). Possibly lost or destroyed during WWII.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 203; II, no. 412.

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