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

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

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Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

S27 w29

Ivory

Height: 99mm
Width: 74mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Randall 1993: French (Lorraine or Burgundy), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Rowe 2011: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Blue and white label with inscription: 'No. 112 TKB'.

Object Condition
The upper part of the panel is indented and a piece of ivory is missing beside where a hole has been drilled. Cracked and worn.

Provenance
Bought from Gaetano Pepe, Naples, by Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 141.
N. Rowe, 'Pocket Crucifixions: Jesus, Jews, and Ownership in Fourteenth-Century Ivories', in Studies in Iconography 32 (2011), pp. 81-120 (p. 84, fig. 3).


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