Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum

1947.47

Ivory

Height: 109mm
Width: 70mm

Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendants with horses.
Pointed trefoils.

Randall 1993: Mosan, 4th quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, c. 1365-1385.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Provenance
Collection of Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles; bought in 1947 thanks to the R. T. Miller Jr. Fund.

Bibliography
W. Stechow, European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, 1967), p. 185, fig. 235.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 154.

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