Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a polyptych; lower register), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tabernacle) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a polyptych; lower register), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tabernacle) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a polyptych; lower register), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette; tabernacle) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
khanenkomuseum.kiev.ua

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Kiev, The Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Art

Inv. 188 BR

Ivory

Height: 65 mm
Width: 50 mm

Simeon; Joseph holding a candle and a basket of doves brought as offerings (part of Presentation in the Temple).

Museum's opinion 2014: French, 14th-15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Trace of red wax.
Label with inscription '99'.

Object Condition
Missing: upper register(s).

Provenance
Collection of Bogdan Khanenko (b. 1848, d. 1917) and Varvara Khanenko: given with the rest of the collection by Varvara Khanenko in 1918 to the city of Kiev.

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