Gothic Ivories Project | Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across on one side ( fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across on one side ( fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Side 1)

Double-sided panel, 1 register, 1 arch across on one side ( fragment of a diptych or polyptych) (Side 1)

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Side 2

Links

Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
www.huntmuseum.com

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Limerick, The Hunt Museum

HCM 090

Walrus ivory

Height: 65 mm
Width: 40 mm
Depth: 18 mm

Side 1: Nativity; hanging lamp; swaddled Christ; curtain.
Angel and star in the spandrels.
Side 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin with hands crossed on her chest; sun and moon.
Columns.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on one side.

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: small loss in upper left corner (when facing the Crucifixion side).

Provenance
Collection of John Hunt (b. 1900, d. 1976) and Gertrude Hunt (b. 1903, d. 1975), Limerick; now part of the Hunt Museum which opened in 1997.

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