Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.282

Ivory

Height: 147mm
Width: 100mm
Depth: 10mm

Adoration of the Magi; Christ standing in the Virgin's lap; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; pinnacles.

Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Boy, Paris (?): sale, Paris, 1905, lot 304. Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Note: the order of the provenance has not be checked.

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