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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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Subject
Religious.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259043 (EE269)

Ivory

Height: 165mm
Width: 108mm
Depth: 10mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; angel praying and angel crying.
Pinnacles.

London 1923: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2009: French, mid 14th century.
Warren 2014: France, mid- or third quarter of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of glue.
White and blue label with the inscription: 'Lady Wernher's Collection no. 10'; white and blue label with the inscription: 'Collection Wernher no. 269; ink inscription along the upper edge: '13th century'; ink inscriptions in the centre: '200', '1133' (?), '463'.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner (repaired with a small piece of ivory).
The upper right corner broke and was glued back into place.

Comments
The left wing of this diptych is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (Inv. AN2008.24).

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; collection of Lady Ludlow (in 1923); on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 107.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 580-2, fig. 219, in relation to no. 171.


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