Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Inv. F 8

Ivory

Height: 125mm
Width: 94mm
Depth: 11mm
Weight: 144.8g

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; titulus.
Medallions containing trefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels. Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2013: France, c. 1300-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Incised concentric circles made with a compass.

Provenance
Collection of J. W. Frederiks, on loan to the Rotterdam Museum (in 1987); donated to the Museum in 1994.

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