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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Wing, right)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Wing, right)
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Wing, left

Front

Subject
Religious.

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

MTC 1152 (1098)

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 170mm
Width: 210mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon; rugged cross; titulus.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with wild man faces in the spandrels. Pointed trefoil in the gable.


Koechlin Number: 0541

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Paris 1981: Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat.

Provenance
Collection of Lancelot Théodore, comte de Turpin Crissé (b. 1782, d. 1859); his bequest to the Museum in 1859.

Bibliography
L. de Farcy, 'Epaves', in Revue d'art chrétien, 4th series, no. 9 (1898), pp. 287-292, pl. XIV and XV, esp. p. 292.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 123.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 218, 220-222, 422; II, no. 541; III, pl. XCVII.
R. Didier, 'Contribution à l'étude d'un type de Vierge française du XIVe siècle', in Revue d'architecture et histoire d'art de Louvain, 3 (1970), pp. 64-65.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 159 (as MTC 1098).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 99.


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