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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Lund, Universitets Historiska Museum

Inv. LUHM 25320

Ivory

Height: 85mm
Width: 49mm
Depth: 4mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by one of the Holy Woman; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: French (Paris ?), 1st half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth, with some scoring.

Object Condition
Large hole in each upper corner of the panel.
Vertical crack in the lower part of the panel.

Provenance
From an unknown church in Southeast Scania, Sweden; acquired by the Museum sometime between 1927 and 1931.

Bibliography
M. Rydbeck, 'Medeltida elfenbensskulpturer i Lunds universitets historiska museum', in Meddelanden från Lunds universitets historiska museum 1931 (Lund, 1931), p. 263, fig. 54, pl. VII.


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