Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures, colonnettes ) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.
Wing, right
Register 1: Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; sheep.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon. Coronation of the Virgin.
Beaded border.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Handwritten ink inscription on the inner edge of the right panel: ‘M.201.’.

Object Condition
Both wings pierced at the top by one hole.

Provenance
Collection of Thomas Henry Noall, a 'master mariner'; inherited by his niece, Miss Sarah Harris, Britannia House, Marazion, Cornwall (at least until 1944); collection of John Francis Mallett; his bequest to the Museum in 1947; Department of Western Art (WA1947.191.201); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 175.

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