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Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (Front)
Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (Front)
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Religious. Life of Christ.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29111

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasp)

Height: 98.9mm
Width: 78.8mm (closed); 159mm (open)
Depth: 10.4mm
Weight: 208g

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.

Museum's opinion 2008: Germany (Mainz) or France (Paris), c. 1375-1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
Attributed to the Master of Kremsmünster

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1969, lot 16. Collection of Professor H. O. Goldschmidt, Netherlands; Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired, 10 May 1991, from Richard Camber, London; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), ill. on p. 92.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 46, in relation to no. 3.


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The Thomson Collection © 2009, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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