Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

12258

Ivory

Height: 89mm
Width: 41mm (each wing)
Depth: 8mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper and lower left corner.

Provenance
Bequest of Alice Baird, Geneva, 1926 (via Mr Baird and Mrs van Muyden-Baird, her heirs).

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