Gothic Ivories Project | Rounded-top centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Front)

Rounded-top centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Front)

Rounded-top centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 305mm
Width: 145mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels; Longinus shielding his eyes, with spear; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Object Condition
Missing: candles held by the angels in the lower register; part of Longinus' spear.
This panel may have originally been gabled.

Comments
This is a 19th-century copy of the centre panel of the Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn Triptych now in the Cluny Museum in Paris.

Provenance
Sale, Amsterdam, 26 November 1912, lot 1081.

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