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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures); reused as a pax (baiser de paix) (Side)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures); reused as a pax (baiser de paix) (Side)
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Subject
Religious.

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Angers, Musée des Beaux-Arts

MA 1 R 233

Ivory;copper (mount)

Height: 90mm
Width: 61mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.


Koechlin Number: 0592

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Back of the ivory hidden by the mount. Handle.

Comments
Set within a copper mount to turn this wing into a pax.

Provenance
Found at Savennières. Gift of abbé Michel Allaume in 1847.

Bibliography
V. Godard-Faultrier, Inventaire du Musée d'Antiquités Saint-Jean et Toussaint (Angers, 1884), no. 2108, p. 347. Accessible online through Europeana: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200143/BEAEFCA0F6A86A9F2969EE316B50AE59CF54D146.html?start=4 [accessed 02/05/2013].
Exposition rétrospective, exhibition catalogue, Tours, 1890, pl. XXXVII, no. 5.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 220; II, no. 592.


Image

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