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

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

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

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Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 62mm
Width: 52 mm (each)

Wing, left
Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Crosshatched background; pointed trefoils in the spandrels; tracery.

Koechlin Number: 0885

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Northern Italy or France, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg (in 1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 330; II, no. 885.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.124, p. 34.

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