Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.87 (Dalton 300)

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 40mm
Width: 58mm (open)
Depth: 8mm
Weight: 42.1g

Wing, left
Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; sun and moon.
Border of dentils.

Westwood 1876: Flanders, late 15th century.
Dalton 1909: French, late 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern ink inscription, 'W. M' (for William Maskell).

Object Condition
Left wing broken and restored.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 506 ('55.72).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 300, pl. LXIX.

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