Gothic Ivories Project | Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Panel (fragment of a casket; lid), 2 registers (coffret; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Saints.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 75mm
Width: 104mm

Register 1: Annunciation. Resurrection; two soldiers asleep. Coronation of the Virgin. Baptism of Christ.
Register 2: doubting Thomas (the incredulity of saint Thomas). Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon. Saint George and the dragon. Flight into Egypt.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Holes for lost fittings.

Provenance
Collection of Herrmann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 123. Drouot, Paris, 9 April 1998, lot 177.

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