Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.202

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 140mm
Width: 109mm
Depth: 8mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, kneeling on corbels.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern oval label with pencil inscription: 'C 458/202'.

Provenance
Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931): bequest of Michael Friedsam in 1931.

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