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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)
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Wing, left

Wing, right

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
cathedrale-lyon.cef.fr

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Lyon, Saint-Jean Cathedral

Stolen

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 150mm
Width: 100mm (each)

Wing, left
Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead under a trefoil arch (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; spear; cross); kneeling Virgin; kneeling saint John the Baptist; souls rising from their tombs; angels blowing trumpets.
Pinnacles; pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0524

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Palissy (2010): 14th century
KIK/IRPA database (2010): France, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Cardinal de Bonald. Treasury of the Cathedral, Lyon; stolen, 10-11 January 1979.

Bibliography
Bégule, Les Vitraux dans la région lyonnaise (Lyon, 1911), p. 29.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 205, 209; II, no. 524; III, pl. XCIII.
Palissy database: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/dapapal_fr [accessed September 2009].
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].


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