Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 116mm
Width: 77mm
Depth: 9 mm

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side

Object Condition
Two central holes at the top for suspension.

Provenance
Drouot, Paris, 23 March 1979. Collection of Charles Ratton (label on the reverse with inventory number). Drouot, Paris, 30 March 2011, lot 75.

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