Gothic Ivories Project | Panel, 1 register, 3 ogee arches across (frise d'arcatures); possibly reused as a lid for a reliquary (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 ogee arches across (frise d'arcatures); possibly reused as a lid for a reliquary (Front)

Panel, 1 register, 3 ogee arches across (frise d'arcatures); possibly reused as a lid for a reliquary (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 102mm
Width: 73mm

Adoration of the Magi; Virgin holding a flower in her left hand; angel holding a scroll; throne.
Diapered background; roped border; rosettes in the spandrels; pointed trefoils and incised trefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the left side (irregularly spaced).

Reverse
Back incised with four pilasters with green colour in the engraved lines, but subsequently, this detail has been roughly erased.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Vertical crack along the right side.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1972, lot 10. Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1988, lot 27.

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