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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica

Inv. 145/AV

Ivory

Height: 120mm
Width: 72mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.

Mallé 1969, Vitali 1976 and Turin 1996: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing ring hinges.

Reverse
Accorsi label with inscription '5016', '181' (former Museum number used between ca. 1950 and 1987), and '10'.

Object Condition
Holes in the left border where ring hinges were (?).

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 181.

Provenance
Collection of princes Trivulzio (Milan); bought from prince Luigi Alberico Trivulzio through the antique dealer Pietro Accorsi (Turin) in 1940.

Bibliography
V. Viale, 'I principali incrementi del Museo Civico', in Bollettino della Società Piemontese d'Archeologia e Belle Arti (Turin, 1948), pl. 25.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), pp. 287-288, pl. 131 (as Inv. 181).
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 6.
Il tesoro della città. Opere d'arte e oggetti preziosi da Palazzo Madama, ed. by S. Pettenati, G. Romano, exhibition catalogue, Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, 1996, no. 395.


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