Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. 6471

Ivory

Height: 136mm
Width: 104mm
Depth: 9-10mm

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

Frankfurt 1966: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Style of the Kremsmünster Master

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
No holes on the outer edges of the diptych: no trace of a closing device.

Provenance
Acquired by the Museum from Paul Klostermann, Munich, January 1929.

Bibliography
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, February-April 1966, no. 232, fig. 27.

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