Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Däberitz, Bajorat and Wilfroth 1997: 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Breakages.

Provenance
Documented in the Gotha Schatzkammer inventory in 1858. Lost during WWII.

Bibliography
C. Aldenhoven, Inventar der Gothaer Kunstkammer (Gotha, 1858), I, ch. XXV, no. 100.
C. Aldenhoven, Katalog der Herzoglichen Gemäldegalerie (Herzogliches Museum zu Gotha)(Gotha, 1890), Elfenbein no. 5.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 212-213; II, no. 483.
U. Däberitz, I. Bajorat, R. Wilfroth, Verlustdokumentation der Gothaer Kunstsammlungen, I: Die Kunsthandwerklichen Sammlungen (Gotha, 1997), no. 3.

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