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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. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 156mm
Width: 105mm

Adoration of the Magi; Virgin holding a bird in her left hand.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold, green and red.

Provenance
Collection of Karl Thewalt, Cologne (at least 1900-1903): his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4-14 November 1903, lot 586, pl. 10. Collection of Pierre Peytel, Paris. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.61, p. 22.


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