Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 437

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 175mm
Width: 202mm
Depth: 9mm

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; hanging lamp; musician shepherd; dog; sheep.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; rugged cross.
Beaded border; pointed trefoils.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions: '437', '1020', '30'.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 437.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1020.

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