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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.283

Ivory

Height: 115mm
Width: 73mm
Depth: 9mm

Adoration of the Magi.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Westwood 1876: French, late 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French, c. 1350-1375.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Cracked on left hand side.

Provenance
Possibly in the collection of Sir Andrew Fountaine, Norfolk, England. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 215, no. 505 ('55.49).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 83, no. 90 (notes).


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Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph by Thomas Vinton, Medieval Art and The Cloisters.

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