Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 160 mm
Width: 85 mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll; saint John the Evangelist holding a book.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi spreading over the two wings).
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; part of the Adoration of the Magi spreading over the two wings); two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy in the background.

Object Condition
Damage to the upper right corner of the left wing.

Provenance
Property of a private Swiss Collector, purchased by the grandfather of the present owner around the turn of the century. Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1996, lot 33.

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