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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7765

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 57mm
Depth: 5mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, last quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Style derived from the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked. Chips and pieces missing around the hinges.
Modern hole in the centre of the upper part.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Corroyer, Paris (d. 1904); gift of Mrs Édouard Corroyer, 1905.

Bibliography
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, p. 278.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 206.


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