Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as a book cover; later reused as a pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as a book cover; later reused as a pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures); reused as a book cover; later reused as a pax (baiser de paix) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.museusolsona.cat

Solsona, Museu Diocesà i Comarcal

Stolen

Ivory

Height: 90 mm
Depth: 6.4 mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner.

Provenance
Mentioned in the inventory that Joan Serra Vilaró (director between 1909 and 1925) wrote in the early 1920s (designated as Inv. 377); stolen in 1940, perhaps by Mr. Llort, known as ‘Boig de Sant Antoni’.

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