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Panels, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Panels, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)
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Front, detail

Front, detail

Subject
Religious.

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Rome, Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia

Inv. 7985

Ebony (frame);ivory

Height: 48 mm
Width: 27 mm
Depth: 5 mm

Panel 1
Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; two angels with hands in prayer.
Panel 2
Coronation of the Virgin; blessing gesture; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils. Stars on the background.

Museum's opinion 2014: 19th century (in 14th-century style).


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Not visible due to the wooden frame.

Provenance
Collection of George Washington Wurts (b. 1843, d. 1928) and Henriette Tower (b. 1856, d. 1933): their bequest to the Museum in 1933.


Image

© Archivio Fotografico della Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Roma.

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