Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaque ajourée; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.206

Ivory;red velvet mounted on paper (modern background)

Height: 115mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 8mm

Saint Michael and the devil; shield decorated with quatrefoils; standing Virgin and Child; Saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm.
Tracery. Pinnacles. Pointed trefoils.

Museum's opinion 2012: France or Flanders, 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red (hair, wheel), gold (hair; crowns; palm; shield)

Object Condition
Vertical crack through Virgin.

Provenance
Achillito Chiesa collection: Chiesa sale, 17 April 1926, lot 335. Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931), New York: his bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1931.

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