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Openwork oval plaque (plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork oval plaque (plaque ajourée) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Private collection, Belgium (2014)

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Ivory

Height: 87mm
Width: 46mm

Deposition with thieves; Virgin in prayer; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint Mary Magdalene raising her arms at the foot of the cross, restrained by saint John the Evangelist; Holy Woman praying; moon; soldiers; ladders; skull; bones; ointment pot; onlookers; angels; titulus.
Background with foliated decoration.

KIK/IRPA 2013: France (Paris), c. 1415-1420.
Williamson and Davies 2013: France (Paris), c.1400-1410.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Private collection, Belgium (in 2014).

Bibliography
R. Didier, 'Miseratio Christi, Redemptio Mundi. Propos d'iconographies. Scriptures médiévales de la Passion', in Feuillets de la Cathédrale de Liège (1994), p. 19, fig. 15.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=obj2&LANGUAGE=0&OPAC_URL=&50003168=ON&LIMIT=50 [accessed 04/04/2013].
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 457 (no. 8), in relation to no. 157.


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