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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses; plaquette) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses; plaquette) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1591

Ivory

Height: 261mm
Width: 125mm

Register 1: Entombment with the Virgin praying; shrouded body of Christ.
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; chalice collecting Christ's blood at the foot of the cross.
Border of dentils.


Koechlin Number: 0253

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, c. 1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.Printed label: '405'. Label with handwritten inscription: 'MNK.XIII V.391'.

Object Condition
Very worn. Vertical crack in the lower register. PIerced hole in the upper part of the panel for hanging.

Provenance
Czartoryski collection (listed in the catalogue of the collection in 1865 in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris; handwritten catalogue 12309, pp. 204-205).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 253.


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