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

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.182

Silver (remains of hinges);ivory

Height: 116mm
Width: 80mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin with hands clasped; Sun and Moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: France N. or Germany, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Original diagonal hole in the upper part for hanging.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters in Paris in 1922; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 309.

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