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Gabled wing, right (fragment of a polyptych; upper register), 1 register, 1 half arch across (tabernacle) (Back)
Gabled wing, right (fragment of a polyptych; upper register), 1 register, 1 half arch across (tabernacle) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

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New York, The Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

1975.1.1554

Ivory

Height: 116 mm
Width: 28 mm
Depth: 7 mm

Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; angel holding a navette and swinging a censer; clouds; lion; monster (winged dragon).

Scholten 2011: Northeastern France (?), c. 1325-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of two missing ring hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat.
Label with inscriptions: '76' (typed) and '27' (written).

Object Condition
Missing: lower part of the panel.
Lower border chipped. Trace of a missing clasp along the lower right side.

Comments
This panel originally was the upper register of the outer right wing of a polyptych.

Provenance
Collection of Alphonse Kann, Paris: his sale, American Art Association, New York, part 1, 6-8 January 1927, lot 450.

Bibliography
F. Scholten, The Robert Lehman Collection XII: European Sculpture and Metalwork (New York, 2011), no. 31.


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