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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.122

Ivory

Height: 116mm
Width: 69mm
Depth: 10mm

Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; one of the Holy Women holding Christ's other hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body.
Register 2: Flagellation; whips.
Border of dentils.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), 1st quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding on the background.

Object Condition
Chipped at the hinges and in the lower right corner.

Comments
Belonging to the Rose Group (Randall 1985).

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in Paris before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, 1977), no. 15.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 289.


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