Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.189

Ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 59mm (closed)
Depth: 14mm (closed)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin with two Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon.
Register 2: saint Michael; saint Christopher; saint Margaret.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment; Virgin embracing Christ.
Register 2: saint Denis; saint holding a cross tbc; saint Bartholomew; male saint holding a spear tbc.
Crosshatched background.

Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: South Netherlandish (Flemish?), 15th century.

Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
No trace of polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
No trace of a catch to hold the diptych closed.

Provenance
Acquired by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 137 n. 62).

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