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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

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Metal;ivory

Height: 117mm
Width: 78 mm (each)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel crying; angel with hands clasped.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Object Condition
Missing: hands of the crowning angel.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
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.77, p. 25.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 571, in relation to no. 165.


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