Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

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Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.85 (Dalton 299)

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasp)

Height: 76mm
Width: 112mm
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 53.6g

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Border of dentils.

Dalton 1909: French, late 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern ink inscription 'W. M.' (for William Maskell) and '4'.

Object Condition
Reverse pierced by two holes going through the upper rim.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 299, pl. LXV.

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