Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Wing, right

Front

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

61.8

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 77mm
Width: 118mm (open); 58mm (wing)
Depth: 7mm (open)

Wing, left
Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the Virgin's soul; angel holding a cloth.
Wing, right
Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, standing on the sides of the bench.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and tympana.

Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of R. Thornton Wilson, New York: gift of R. Thornton Wilson in 1961.

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