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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Edges chipped.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 15 December 1977, lot 26.


Image

© Neil Stratford British Museum Archive.

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