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Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Back)
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Front

Front

Back

Back

Front

Subject
Religious.


Private collection, Cyprus (in 2013)

S/n

Ivory

Height: 84mm
Width: 58mm
Depth: 4mm

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Nicosia 2005 (Y. Carbonell-Lamotte): Paris, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
The panel has broken where the two hinges once were.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Two engraved concentric circles made using a compass.

Object Condition
Worn.Missing: upper and lower left corners. Two holes in the upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Given in the early 1960s to the father of the present owner, who was a medical doctor, by one of his patients from the village of Aes Yiannis tes Malountas (Saint John of Malounta).

Bibliography
Crusades: Myths and Realities, ed. by Y. Toumazis, A. Pace, M. R. Belgiorno and S. Antoniadou, exhibition catalogue, Nicosia, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 2004, pp 84-85 (Y. Carbonell-Lamotte), frontispiece and fig. on p. 85.
Cyprus and Italy during the time of the Byzantine Empire. Historical and artistic testimonies of the period of the Latin rule in Cyprus (1191-1571), exhibition catalogue, Nicosia, 1 June - 30 November 2010, p. 48 (image only).


Image

© Private collection, Cyprus - 2013.

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