Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 4 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

30.95.124

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 91mm
Width: 127mm
Depth: 6mm (open)

Wing, left
Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Wing, right
Coronation of the Virgin; Christ crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers; musician angels (string instruments; rebec).
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: French or South Netherlandish, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Theodore M. Davis (b. 1837, d. 1915), New York; bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.

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