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Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 11195

Ivory

Height: 68mm
Width: 48mm
Depth: 4mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower; crown; Christ holding a fruit; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; saint John the Evangelist with book and martyr's palm.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels and tympana.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), c. 1380-1390.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Labelled: '347'.

Object Condition
Wrenching around the hinges. Traces of a hook.

Provenance
Collection of Nicolas Landau, Paris; gift of Mrs. N. Landau, 1988.

Bibliography
'Acquisitions', in Revue du Louvre, 1989-3, p. 184.
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art (1985-1989), exhibition catalogue, Paris, musée du Louvre, 1990, no. 25.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 215.


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