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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes, frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Dunkerque, Musée des Beaux Arts

B.1972.00.1142

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 58mm
Width: 47mm (each)
Depth: 6mm

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.


Koechlin Number: 0475

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (halo of the Virgin on the left wing).

Reverse
Flat and smooth with museum labels.

Object Condition
Vertical crack across the whole right wing.

Provenance
From the Convent of Poor Clares, Dunkerque.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 121.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212; II, no. 475.


Image

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