Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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

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

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.294

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 166mm
Width: 187mm
Depth: 10mm (open)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a book in her right hand.
Two angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Angel crying and angel wringing his hands in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: candles.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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