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Openwork wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette ajourée) (Back)

Openwork wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette ajourée) (Back)
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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art

78.2.5

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 44mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: English (?), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Mounted on a velvet board. The back has a brocade fabric with a ring attached for hanging. Blue and white round label with ink inscription: 'Collection Emile Baboin 37'.

Object Condition
Missing: crucified Christ.
Two later drilled holes at top. Modern ivory repair to the lower border.

Comments
Randall (1993) suggests that the background may have been cut away at a later time, and that the panel was not originally openwork.

Provenance
Emile Baboin collection, Lyon (no. 37). John Davis Hatch, Jr., Lenox, Mass (bought from Raphael Stora, New York): gift of John Davis Hatch, Jr. in 1978.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 64.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, in relation to no. 161.


Image

© Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Photography: Jim Gipe - Pivot Media and Stephen Petegorsky.
Credit Line: 78.2.5 Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Gift of John Davis Hatch V.

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