Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1881,0802.9 (Dalton 261)

Ivory

Height: 88mm
Width: 46mm
Depth: 8mm
Weight: 45.5g

Standing Virgin and Child; angel crowning the Virgin; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a wheel and martyr's palm; saint Margaret emerging from the dragon unharmed.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0399

Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy in the background and spandrels.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Hole on the left side for a clasp (now lost).

Provenance
Collection of William Burges (b. 1827, d. 1881); his bequest to the Museum in 1881.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 261, Pl. LV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 399.

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