Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

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Strasbourg, Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame

MAD IL.57a; MAD IL.57b

Ivory

Height: 114mm
Width: 103mm
Depth: 8mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; Dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; star.
Wing, right
Register 1: Nativity.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ kneeling on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.

Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels: 'kgm 6a', 'kgm 6b'.

Provenance
Bequest of Alexandre Straub (1825-1891), in 1893.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective d'Alsace et de Lorraine, exhibition catalogue, Strasbourg, 1895, p. 41, no. 345.

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