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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. LIfe of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 59 mm (each)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist, and onlookers; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges. Traces of three former hinges (?).

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
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.95, p. 29.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 590-1, in relation to no.177.


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