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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (CAST, front (wings swapped))
Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (CAST, front (wings swapped))
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.200

Ivory;silver (later mount)

Height: 47mm
Width: 82mm
Depth: 7mm (open)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.Wing, rightCrucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll.

Westwood 1876: French, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Several drilled holes on the back of the left wing.

Object Condition
Left wing broken in two pieces.

Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century (one of these casts is now Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 254).

Provenance
Collection of A. J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq. (b. 1820, d. 1887)(in 1876). Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931), New York: bequest of Michael Friedsam in 1931.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 493 ('55.39).


Image

Conway Library IVORY CASTS © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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