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Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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

88259050 (EE86)

Ivory

Height: 82mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 9mm

Seated Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding a large cloth of honour; Virgin holding a bird in her right hand.
Capitals decorated with animal heads.

Museum's opinion 2009: French, 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. White label with the ink inscription '352'; white and blue label with the inscription: 'Collection Wernher no. 86'.

Object Condition
Missing: right and left upper corners of the panel.

Comments
This piece originally was oblong but the upper corners have been cut out to make it into a gabled panel.

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


Image

© The Wernher Foundation. Source: English Heritage Photo Library.

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