Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across, band of rosettes (décor de roses; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across, band of rosettes (décor de roses; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across, band of rosettes (décor de roses; plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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London, The British Museum

1914,0220.1

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 76mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 64.6g

Standing Virgin and Child; saint Peter holding a key; saint Eanswith (?) standing on a fish and holding a martyr's palm.
Border with roped pattern. Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0586bis

Koechlin 1924: English (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: English (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Donated to the British Museum by the Art Fund, 1914.

Bibliography
National Art Collections Fund, IIth Annual Report, 1914, no. CLXI, pp.45.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 226; II, no. 586bis; III, pl. CI.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 590-1, in relation to no. 177.

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