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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 2184

Ivory

Height: 124mm
Width: 63mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, kneeling on corbels or on the sides of the bench.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding the left hand of Christ.

Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges to the right.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (green in the background and architecture).

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Broken around the upper hinge.
Horizontal crack in the middle part of the the panel.

Provenance
Bought in 1853 at the Gansberg sale.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1089.

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