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Diptych with reliefs (appliqués) (Front)
Diptych with reliefs (appliqués) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, The Wernher Collection, Ranger's House (English Heritage)

88259318 (EE145)

Bone;gilt bronze and silver (frame);horn (background)

Height: 97mm
Width: 70mm
Depth: 23mm

Annunciation; vase of lilies.

London 1923: North Italian, late 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Italian (Florence or Venice), mid 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
The back of the reliefs is hidden by the metal frame. The metal frame has a Latin inscription running along its edges, fashioned in metal: 'Ave, Regina Celorum'.

Comments
The composition derives from a painted Annunciation by Filippo Lippi of c. 1450 (Munich, Alte Pinakothek, Inv. no. 1072), formerly in the convent of the Suore Murate in Florence (see Williamson and Davies 2014).

Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; collection of Lady Ludlow (in 1923); on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 177, pl. XLIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 117.


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