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

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

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

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Geneva, Musée d'art et d'histoire

12261

Ivory

Height: 67mm
Width: 55mm
Depth: 7mm

Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.

Piano 2007: Paris, c. 1360-1380 (?); modern copy (?).
Museum's opinion 2011: French (Ile-de-France), 14th or 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Six holes on the left side and three on the right side.

Provenance
Bequest of Alice Baird, Geneva, 1926 (via Mr Baird and Mrs van Muyden-Baird, her heirs).

Bibliography
N. Piano, 'La Collection d'ivoires médiévaux du musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève', in Genava LV (2007), pp. 127-157 (pp. 154-155, no. 10).

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