Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.274

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 73mm
Width: 113mm (open); 56mm (wing)
Depth: 7mm

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Saint Christopher carrying Christ; angel holding the Vera Icon (holy face of Christ); cruciform halo; unidentified bishop saint (possibly saint Remigius).

Museum's opinion 2011: Northern France (Meuse Valley), c. 1325-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern paper label, printed '3100', pencil inscription: '1P.M. 1547'.

Provenance
Collection of Cav. Aldo Noseda. Galleria Giorgio Sangiorgi, Milan (until 1911). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York' estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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