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

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

Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 85 mm
Width: 95 mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; angel crowning the Virgin; musician angels (string instruments including a psaltery).
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the Sun and the Moon; angels praying.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: candles held by the angels.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 22 April 1982, lot 61. Sale, 13 April 1983, lot 28.


Image

© Courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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