diptych; religious/ritual equipment

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Object Type: diptych; religious/ritual equipment
Museum number: 1885,0805.1
Description: Diptych; leaf; ivory; four subjects in two compartments; each with canopy of six arches, divided by columns; Resurrection and Maries at tomb; below: St Martin dividing his cloak; St James the Great and St James the Lesser; ink writing on label on reverse.
Production date: 1326-1375
Production place: Made in: France
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Mansfield, hog trough (near)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 170 millimetres; Weight: 259.90 grammes; Width: 110 millimetres; Depth: 10 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Dalton 1909 / Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era with Examples of Mohammedan Art and Carvings in Bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (285); Koechlin 1924 / Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (379)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Cavities for hinges on left side; hole pierced through top. Lower right staff broken.
Subjects: saint/martyr; resurrection; three maries at the tomb
Associated names: Representation of: Jesus Christ; Representation of: Holy Women at the Sepulchre; Representation of: St Martin of Tours; Representation of: St James the Greater; Representation of: St James the Less
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1885
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1885,0805.1

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