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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Crucifixion; Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Vertical crack down the middle of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1917 (Inv. 17.190.189); de-accessioned.

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