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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 1964

Ivory

Height: 83 mm
Width: 53 mm
Depth: 3 mm

Flagellation; fashionable dress; whips.
Incised trefoils and pointed trefoils.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany (?), 15th century (?).


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Hinges on both sides. On the left hand side at the front, on the right hand side at the back.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.

Comments
Another fragment of this polyptych is Inv. F 1965, also at the Hermitage. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 129.


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