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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

11.12

Ivory

Height: 145mm
Width: 76mm
Depth: 12mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.

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


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Heavily cracked. Crack to the right of the Virgin, restoration in the ivory around the Child.

Provenance
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin: bought thanks to the Rogers Fund, 1910.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 78 (in relation to no. 79).


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Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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