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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 180 mm
Width: 95 mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; sheep.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner.

Comments
The right wing of this diptych is probably a piece in the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne (Inv. B 136). See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs J. L. Lewin, Los Angeles, California; Sotheby's, New York, 7 December 1979, lot 284.

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