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Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 paired arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 paired arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.


Private collection, London (in 2010)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 170mm
Width: 110mm
Depth: 9mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Beaded border. Turrets. Pinnacles.


Koechlin Number: 0388

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Hole in the two upper corners; central hole in the lower part.

Comments
The right wing is now 17.190.176 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Provenance
Collection of Adolph Moritz List (b. 1861, d. 1938), Magdeburg.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 187, 192, 200, 215, 292; II, no. 388; III, pl. LXXXIV.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 234, in relation to no. 73.


Image

© Private collection, London.

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