Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee; Christ in long robe; two angels crowning the Virgin; bench.
Rosettes in the spandrels.
KIK/IRPA database (accessed in 2009): Mosan (?), c. 1340.
Museum's opinion 2013: Cologne (?), ca. 1330-1340
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with longer edges chamfered. Label with inscriptions: '13' (cancelled) and 'J.B.5'.
Object Condition
Cracked. Broken at the hinges on both sides. Pierced by two holes, one at the top centre and the other under the centre of the arch.
Provenance
Collection of Joseph Brassine, Liège: bought from his heirs in 1955 by the Musée d'Archéologie et d'Arts Décoratifs, which became the Département d'Arts Décoratifs of the Grand Curtius in 2009.
Bibliography
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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