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

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

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

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 85mm
Width: 141mm
Depth: 5mm (open)

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes; bagpipes decorated with an animal head.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Border of dentils.

Lowden 2013: North France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Hermann Baer collection, London, c. 1940. Christie's, London, 8 November 2007, lot 38. Bernard Descheemaeker Works of Art, Antwerp (February 2010).

Bibliography
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 76 n. 1, in relation to no. 10.

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