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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1878,1101.37 (Dalton 297)

Ivory

Height: 79mm
Width: 65mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 133.3g

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Printed label: '79'.

Object Condition
Pierced hole under each central arch.

Provenance
Aquired in France. Collection of Lt-Gen. Augustus Meyrick (b. 1826, d. 1902); British Museum, by donation, 1878.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 297, pl. LXVIII.

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