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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front, detail)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front, detail)
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Front

Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 100mm
Width: 57mm
Depth: 11mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.
Man and woman in bust in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: red and blue.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Paris, Drouot, 13 May 1992. Anthony Blumka, New York. Private collection, London (bought from Bernard Descheemaeker, Antwerp, in August 2010). Sotheby's, London, 10 July 2014, lot 16.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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