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Panel (image de chevet; bedside image) (Front)
Panel (image de chevet; bedside image) (Front)
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.202

Ivory;gilded copper (late 16th-century frame)

Height: 44-45mm (ivory only); 85mm (with frame)
Width: 35-37mm (ivory only); 56mm (with frame)
Depth: 9mm (with frame)

Annunciation; Dove of the Holy Spirit; open book; vase of lilies; checkered pattern on the background.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish, 3rd quarter of the 15th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding in the Virgin's dress, the background, flowers and clouds; gilding on the dove, haloes and wings. Inscription on the Archangel Gabriel's scroll 'Av[e] Maria'.

Comments
Plaque attached to the frame with two rivets.

Provenance
Collection of Dom Marcello Massarenti: sold, Rome, July 1902 to Henry Walters with other items from the Massarenti collection; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 364.


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