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. Passion.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 448

Ivory

Height: 132mm
Width: 86mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).

Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Broken in one place in the background under the cross, to the right.

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 428 (`73.159). (Mistakenly placed in the Louvre?)
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1098.

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