IDENTIFIERS
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id:	127145
accession number:	AA Loan 1969

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 10 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ivory, carved in high relief, comprising a central tabernacle with a foliated arch, and two free-standing columns, flanked on each side by two hinged wings with conical crocketed tops, and two registers of foliated arches. The Virgin stands in the tabernacle holding the Christ Child in her left arm, and holding a flower in her right hand. The upper panels of the two wings on the left enclose the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin, and those of the two wings on the right, the Nativity, with Joseph on the left presenting the Christ Child to the Virgin, watched by an ox and ass. The lower left two enclose  the three Magi, two in one wing and one in the next, and the lower right two, the Presentation in the Temple with the High Priest on the left and the Virgin holding the Christ Child on the right.
title:	polyptich

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Lent anonymously, 1969

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/127145

PEOPLE
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Virgin
Christ Child
Archangel Gabriel
St Joseph
Simeon
Magi

SUBJECTS
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column
ox
ass
column
ox
ass



TECHNIQUES
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ivory, carved in high relief, and joined by silver hinges
carving

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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creation date:	1325 - 1350
creation date earliest:	1325
creation date latest:	1350
culture:	Medieval

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 14



CITATIONS
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Les ivoires gothiques français
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