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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.


Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 136mm
Width: 63mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin. Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0410

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd quarter of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Part of the background has become detached and been repaired
Missing: candles (replaced).
Later holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection of Emile Lévy, Paris (at least from 1924): his sale, Paris, 14 December 1928, lot 8. Berlin, 12 October 1935, lot 230, pl. 36. Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 10-24 November 1994.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 410 (in Lévy collection).


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