Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery

1966.90

Ivory

Height: 127mm
Width: 78mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Entry into Jerusalem.

London 1923: French, 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum files 2010: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
George Eumorfopoulos collection (at least until 1923 when was exhibited at the Burlington Club). Bought from K. J. Hewett, London, in 1966, thanks to the Enoch Vine Stoddard Fund.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 115, pl. XXXVII.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 120.

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