Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Passion.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.204

Ivory;metal (later ring for suspension)

Height: 130mm
Width: 100mm
Depth: 10mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Virgin anointing Christ's body.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Entry into Jerusalem; saint john the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931); bequest of Michael Friedsam in 1931.

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