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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes). (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette; colonnettes). (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 446

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 7mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Flagellation of the Christ; Christ tied to the column of the Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; man holding nails.
Crosshatched background; pointed trefoils.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, end of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Recessed, with inner fillet. Four horizontal slots along the left side. Traces of green wax.
Labels with inscriptions: '446', '1029', '41'.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges. Vertical crack.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 446.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1029.
J.-G. Lemoine, 'Les 'Tables à pourtraire' du XIVe siècle au Musée Bonnat de Bayonne', in Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (année 1963), pp. 7-16 (general considerations).


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