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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 107

Ivory

Height: 165mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 11mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; two standing angels holding candlesticks.

Koechlin Number: 0308

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 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
Missing: candles in the upper and lower registers.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 170, 173; II, no. 308; III, pl. LXXV.

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