Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 2 arches across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 2 arches across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 2 arches across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

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Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. WMJ 3

Ivory

Height: 139mm
Width: 79mm
Depth: 5mm

Register 1: Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); trees.
Register 2: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the gate of Hell; souls burning in a cauldron in Hell; demons. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb with hands in prayer.
Pinnacles. Medallions with trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0278bis

Frauberger 1897: Italy, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: blue and red (inside the trefoils, architecture, background), green (trees).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Several holes along the inner edge (for missing hinges), along the outer edge and in the four central medallions.Labels: 'No. 6056 GMR HORR'

Provenance
Wilhelm Metzler collection, Frankfurt am Main; acquired by the Museum in 1904.

Bibliography
H. Frauberger, Die Kunstsammlung des Herrn Wilhelm Peter Metzler in Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt, 1897), pl. 24.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 167; II, no. 278bis.

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