Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Front (open)

Wing, left

Wing, right

Links

Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 170mm (open)

Wing, left
Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Wing, right
Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the Sun and the Moon.
Pointed trefoils in the gables.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Nelli, Paris: his sale, 4-5 December 1911, lot 155.

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