Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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New London (Connecticut), Lyman Allyn Art Museum

1952.122

Ivory;silver (fragment of a hinge in the lower hinge mitre).

Height: 148mm
Width: 79mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pinnacles.

Randall 1993: North French, 1340-1360.
Museum files 2010: Franco-Rhenish, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: diamond pattern in each gable.

Provenance
Stanley Marcus collection, Dallas: given by him to the Museum in 1952.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 82.

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