Gothic Ivories Project | 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)

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

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Bayonne, Musée Bonnat-Helleu

Inv. 429

Ivory

Height: 118mm
Width: 82mm
Depth: 10mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Pointed trefoils.

Gruyer 1902 and Paris 1930: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with inscriptions: '429', '1012', '22'.

Object Condition
Numerous cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Léon Bonnat (b. 1833, d. 1922): his bequest in 1922.

Bibliography
G. Gruyer, Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire, Musée de Bayonne (Bayonne, 1902 and subsequent editions), no. 429.
Collection Bonnat, catalogue sommaire (Paris, 1930 and subsequent editions), no. 1012.

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