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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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Religious. Life of Christ.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 1957

Ivory

Height: 70 mm
Width: 100 mm (open)
Depth: 10 mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany (?), end of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: candles in the angels's hands.

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg, since 1897; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Ukazatel' vystavki starinnykh khudozhestvennykh predmetov i kartin v pol'zu uchrezhdenii, sostoiashchikh pod pokrovitel'stvom ee i. v. vel. kniagini Marii Pavlovny (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 13, p. 59.
Sobranie M. P. Botkina (Saint Petersburg, 1911), no. 56.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 125.


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