Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork gabled panel (possibly formerly part of belt fittings) (plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork gabled panel (possibly formerly part of belt fittings) (plaque ajourée) (Front)

Openwork gabled panel (possibly formerly part of belt fittings) (plaque ajourée) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

30.95.118

Ivory, wood (mount)

Height: 65mm
Width: 24mm
Depth: 4mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Christ seated on left arm; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.
Pointed trefoil in the spandrel. Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Unable to view due to mount.

Object Condition
Lower right side borders broken and restored.

Provenance
Collection of Theodore M. Davis (b. 1837, d. 1915), New York; bequest of Theodore M. Davis in 1915.

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