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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1878,1101.36 (Dalton 294)

Ivory, metal (hinges)

Height: 63mm
Width: 94mm (open)
Depth: 7mm
Weight: 47.3g

Wing, left
Nativity (Virgo lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd.
Wing, right
Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.

Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Printed label: '80'. Modern inscription (on the label): '1343'.

Provenance
Collection of Major General Meyrick (b. 1826, d. 1902): donated by him to the British Museum in 1878.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 294.

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