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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Ivory

Wing, left
Saint Agnes with a book, a martyr's palm and a lamb; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a wheel and martyr's palm.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross; sun and moon.
Beaded border.

Koechlin Number: 0579

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Provenance
Corroyer collection, Paris (at least 1900-1924).

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 105.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 222, 227; II, no. 579.

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