Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (plaquette; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Metal (remains of hinges);ivory

Height: 134mm
Width: 55mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (haloes).

Object Condition
Missing: candles.
Deep vertical crack down the middle.

Provenance
Wiegersma collection, Utrecht. Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 19 December 1994, lot 333. Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 23 May 2000, lot 202. Blumka Gallery-Julius Böhler-Brimo de Laroussilhe, Collecting Treasures of the Past, New York, Blumka Gallery, January-February 2002, no. 46.

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