Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Dublin, National Museum of Ireland

1945:56

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 100mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Sun and Moon.

Wallace and Ó Floinn 2002: 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Candlestick on left partly broken.

Provenance
Bequest in 1945 of Dr. Edmund John McGrath, 12 Mill Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex.

Bibliography
Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland - Irish Antiquities, ed. by P. Wallace and R. Ó Floinn (Dublin, 2002), no. 7:31, p. 272.

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