Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette, frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit or orb in his left hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks.

Utrecht 1987: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
's-Heerenberg 2008: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Michiel Onnes of Nijenrode (d. 1972), Breukelen: his sale, Amsterdam, 4-7 July 1933, lot 198; purchased for the museum by Jan Herman van Heek from Brimo de Laroussilhe, art dealer, Paris, in July 1933.

Bibliography
J. H. van Heek, Wat het Huis Bergh in zich houdt (s'-Heerenberg, 1960), pl. 46.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 31.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 45-47), pl. 21.

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