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Panel (possibly fragment of a diptych; wing, right), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Panel (possibly fragment of a diptych; wing, right), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Cremona, Museo Civico 'Ala Ponzone'

Inv. H 6

Ivory;wood (later frame)

Height: 85mm
Width: 35mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin (missing) and saint John the Evangelist; sun (missing) and moon.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: brown (?).

Reverse
Not visible due to a 19th-century wooden frame.

Object Condition
Missing: left side of the panel.
This piece would originally have been rectangular but the upper corners have been shaved off. Hole in the upper and bottom right corners.

Comments
This panel was possibly originally the right wing of a diptych.

Provenance
Bequest of marquess Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone in 1842, and previously inventoried as 'Antico Inv. Ponzone XI.N, n. 90'.

Bibliography
A. Ebani, 'Raccolte artistiche diverse', in Il museo si rinnova: duecento opere e un progetto globale, ed. by I. Iotta (Milan, 1992), pp. 199-205, p. 203, fig. III.103b.


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