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

Wing, right (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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Mönchengladbach, Schatzkammer Münsterkirche St Vitus; on loan from the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach

Inv. 9700

Ivory

Height: 60 mm
Width: 45 mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Border of dentils.

Mönchengladbach 2013: Paris, c. 1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
The panel has broken into two pieces along a vertical axis and the pieces have been put back together.

Provenance
Formerly in the Benedictine priory of Neuwerk (Kloster Neuwerk), Mönchengladbach. Given by the Stadwerke Mönchengladbach to the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach in 1970.

Bibliography
Die Abtei Gladbach 974-1802: Ausstellung zur Jahrtausendfeier der Gründung, exhibition catalogue, Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 1974, pp. 161-162, no. 35.
E. Coester, Münsterschatzkammer Mönchengladbach (Mönchengladbach, 1988), pp. 4-5, fig. on p. 7.
Die Schatzkammer der Münsterkirche in Mönchengladbach, exhibition catalogue, Mönchengladbach, Städtischen Museum Schloss Rheydt, 29 September 2013-June 2014, no. 9 (S. Woisch).


Image

© Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach. Photo: Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf.

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