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Gabled centre panel (fragment of polyptych), 1 register (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled centre panel (fragment of polyptych), 1 register (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum

Inv. 1949.183

Metal (remains of hinges);ivory

Height: 94mm
Width: 45mm
Depth: 16 mm

Seated Virgin and Child; crown; bench.
Pinnacles; pierced trefoils.

Randall 1993: Spanish, 1270-1290.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth; some crosshatching along the sides. Label with inscription 'V5526'.

Object Condition
Missing: head and left hand of the Child, part of the Virgin's crown, nose of the Virgin, right knee of the Virgin; upper part of the pinnacles.
Front very damaged.

Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Larcade collection, Paris. Joseph Brummer collection: Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 May 1949, lot 685 to the Wadsworth Museum, thanks to the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Note: the order of the early provenance has not been checked.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 31.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 552, in relation to no. 158.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 53, in relation to no. 11.


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© Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.
Credit Line: Gift of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, 1949.183.

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