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Wing (fragment of a diptych), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)

Wing (fragment of a diptych), 1 register (plaquette) (Front)
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 1952

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 77 mm
Depth: 10 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; titulus.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.

Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany, mid 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Inner edge slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Three holes in the back (plugged).

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg; acquired in 1919 by the Hermitage.

Bibliography
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 82.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 120.


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