Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Denver, Denver Art Museum

1971.237

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 82mm
Width: 50mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: French (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Remains of glued paper.
Labels with inscriptions: '15/26 French, 14th cent. 2Kl[?]', 'E-75'.

Provenance
Bought from Loewi-Robertson, Los Angeles, in 1971, thanks to the Marion G. Hendrie Fund.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 117.

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