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Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette); reused as part of a diptych (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette); reused as part of a diptych (Front)
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Front

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (frame)

Height: 76mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Pierced trefoil in the gable.


Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This panel has been mounted in a frame with another panel but there is no evidence that these two pieces originally formed a diptych.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1974, lot 11.


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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