Right wing of a diptych, with the Nativity and other scenes, anonymous, c. 1350 - c. 1400 The wing is horizontally divided into two registers, each with a three -part Gothic arcature on both sides resting on columns. The upper register gives Maria lying on her sponde with one hand under the head and the other on the child lying in a manger, which is placed between the donkey, of which only the head can be seen, and the horizontal ox. Joseph is sitting at the foot end, who lets both hands rest on a stick. Behind Maria on a hill a shepherd in profile to the right, between two sheep and on each s
Right wing of a diptych, with the Nativity and other scenes, anonymous, c. 1350 - c. 1400 The wing is horizontally divided into two registers, each with a three -part Gothic arcature on both sides resting on columns. The upper register gives Maria lying on her sponde with one hand under the head and the other on the child lying in a manger, which is placed between the donkey, of which only the head can be seen, and the horizontal ox. Joseph is sitting at the foot end, who lets both hands rest on a stick. Behind Maria on a hill a shepherd in profile to the right, between two sheep and on each side the semi -figure of an angel with a finger indicating the spell band, which he holds with one hand. In the bottom register, the child is on the left on an altar between Maria and Simeon; To the right of this group of Maria in praying attitude sitting on a couch, to the left of Christ, who with the right hand puts the crown on the head and lets a book rest on his knee with the left. Paris ivory cutting The wing is horizontally divided into two registers, each with a three -part Gothic arcature on both sides resting on columns. The upper register gives Maria lying on her sponde with one hand under the head and the other on the child lying in a manger, which is placed between the donkey, of which only the head can be seen, and the horizontal ox. Joseph is sitting at the foot end, who lets both hands rest on a stick. Behind Maria on a hill a shepherd in profile to the right, between two sheep and on each side the semi -figure of an angel with a finger indicating the spell band, which he holds with one hand. In the bottom register, the child is on the left on an altar between Maria and Simeon; To the right of this group of Maria in praying attitude sitting on a couch, to the left of Christ, who with the right hand puts the crown on the head and lets a book rest on his knee with the left. Paris ivory cutting
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