Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Saint Agnes with a lamb and book; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; two angels crowning the Virgin.
Two angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels; pointed trefoil in the gable.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Comments
So far, this piece is only known through a cast made in the mid 19th century (see image on this page).

Provenance
Oettingen-Wallerstein collection (c. 1924).

Image

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