Diptych

14th century

French

On View

European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Diptych

Artwork Date 14th century

Artist ----------

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

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Medium Ivory; modern metal mounts

Dimensions 3 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 1/4 in. 8.1 x 11.3 x 0.8 cm width of each leaf: 2 1/8 in. 5.4 cm

Classification Sculpture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 43.457

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Provenance

Wyndham Cook, London

, London, 8 July 1925

purchased from Henri Leman, Paris. Note: presumably it was in the possession of Sir Francis Cook, Bt. (1817-1901, Doughty House, Richmond

when he died his ivories passed to his second son, Wyndham Cook (1860-1905). Wyndham commissioned scholarly catalogues of his collection, the first volume appearing in 1904, and two others, sponsored by his widow, in 1908 and 1910. These should be checked for references to the piece. When she died in 1925 their only son Humphrey (1893-1978) sold the entire collection (bronzes, silver, ivories, china, miniatures, missals, antique gems, medieval jewellery) at Christie's. See for Cook family history/collecting: sale cat., Christie's London, Old Master Pictures, 8 Dec. 2005, pp. 42-55, esp. p. 49.

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