Gothic ivory Madonna and Child from a diptych

An image of Sculpture / Diptych. Madonna and Child. Left wing of a diptych, ivory carved in relief. Under a cusped and crocketted arch, stands the Virgin crowned, holding in her left arm the child. Two angels crowned, holding candles (now broken) and above, two angels appear swinging censers. In the spandrels of the arch are cut two trefoils. Carved ivory, height, whole, 3 1/2 in, width, whole, 2 1/8 in, circa 1300-1400. Gothic. Medieval. French.

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Sculpture / Diptych. Madonna and Child. Left wing of a diptych, ivory carved in relief. Under a cusped and crocketted arch, stands the Virgin crowned, holding in her left arm the child. Two angels crowned, holding candles (now broken) and above, two angels appear swinging censers. In the spandrels of the arch are cut two trefoils. Carved ivory, height, whole, 3 1/2 in, width, whole, 2 1/8 in, circa 1300-1400. Gothic. Medieval. French.

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Accession Number: M.20-1917
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 687 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 612.74kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:01:24 10:48:05

Key words

14th Century angels arch arched architectural architecture Baby Jesus Bible biblical carved censers Christ Christ child Christmas contrapposto crown crowned cusped devotional diptych draperies drapery Fitz_AA French Gothic infant Christ ivory Jesus Madonna Marian Mary Medieval mother mother and child New Testament relief religion religious sculpture spandrels swaying trefoil Virgin and Child Virgin Mary Xmas

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