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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3208

Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 93 mm
Width: 100 mm (open)
Depth: 6 mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin with hands in prayer.
Pinnacles.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red, black and green.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Four holes in the corners of the right wing.

Provenance
Acquired in Vienna in 1886 by the Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1926.

Bibliography
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 16.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 74.


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