Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 109

Ivory

Height: 86mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 8mm

Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist covering his head with his cloak; sun and moon; clouds.
Pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0598

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
The miters of the hinges have been filled.

Provenance
In the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Cologne in 1924.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 220; II, no. 598.

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