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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

Inv. C 11072 b

Ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 32.5g

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ seated on left arm; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils in the gables and the spandrels; border of dentils.

Karlsruhe 1999: West Germany (Cologne) or France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Two pairs of holes have been added later on either side.
Missing: lower left corner (replaced before 1924).

Provenance
Acquired by the museum in 1924 from Weigt, art dealer in Baden-Baden.

Bibliography
A. von Schneider, Die Plastischen Bildwerke (vorwiegend oberrheinischer Herkunft) (Karlsruhe, 1938), no. 83.
Mittelalterliche Kunst in Baden, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1949, no. 121.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), no. 9.


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