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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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London, The British Museum

1881,0802.8 (Dalton 272)

Ivory

Height: 80mm
Width: 51mm
Depth: 7mm
Weight: 36.6g

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin holding a book in her right hand.

Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Green staining in background.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Some scratches.Ink inscription: '5'. Inner edge crosshatched.

Object Condition
Missing: left hand of Virgin.
Broken around the lower hinge. Holes in the upper left, upper right and lower right corners.

Comments
Added engraved outline of a coat of arms in the upper right spandrel.

Provenance
Collection of William Burges (b. 1827, d. 1881): his bequest to the British Museum in 1881.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 272, pl. LVII.


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