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

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

Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 110mm
Width: 7.5mm

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Ludorff 1897: Gothic.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Provenance
Offer Manor (Westphalia) in 1897.

Bibliography
A. Ludorff, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler Westfalens (Münster, 1897), V: Kreis Münster-Land, p. 50, pl. 37. Fully accessible online at http://archive.org/details/bauundkunstdenkm07ludouoft.


Image

Out of Copyright. A. Ludorff, Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler Westfalens (Münster, 1897), V: Kreis Münster-Land, pl. 37.

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