Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Religious. Passion.

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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 2833

Ivory

Height: 135mm
Width: 78mm
Depth: 7mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb with hands in prayer; three soldiers asleep; shields.
Pointed trefoils and incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Lázaro Galdiano 1926: French, 14th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, 14th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Some scratches. Flat and smooth, longer edges slightly chamfered, inner edge with moldings. Label with ink inscription '150'.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the cross held by Christ in the Resurrection scene.

Provenance
Lázaro collection (from at least 1926).

Bibliography
J. Lázaro Galdiano, La Colección Lázaro (Madrid, 1926), I, no. 396, p. 419.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 17.

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