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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 100mm
Width: 133mm

Wing, left
Seated Virgin (Vierge Glorieuse; Virgo lactans); two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist holding a book; angel holding the sun and the moon.
Border of dentils. Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0393

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Louis Fould (b. 1794, d. 1858), Paris: his sale, Paris, 4 June 1860 and following days, lot 1691. On the art market in Belgium, September 2014.

Bibliography
A. Chabouillet, Description des Antiquities et Objects d'Art composant le Cabinet de M. Louis Fould (Paris, 1861), no. 1691, pl. XXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202; II, no. 393.

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