Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Wing, right, back)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); trees.
Register 2: Entry into Jerusalem; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a marty's palm; city gate.

Berliner 1926: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Munich 2010: Northern France or Netherlands, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Back of the left wing
Inscriptions: 'Aus der Residenz' and '117. Red wax.
Back of the right wing
Inscription: 'Aus der Residenz'. Blue and white label with inscription: 'No. 904'.

Comments
Believed to have once formed part of a polyptych.

Provenance
Residenz, Munich (see inscription on the back of the left wing). Transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen, Munich, to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in 1866.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 461.
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1368-1369, pl. XXVII.
H. Kehrer, Die heiligen drei Könige in Literatur und Kunst (Leipzig, 1908-1909), I, p. 163.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 44.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), no. 293-1867.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten: ausgewählte Werke aus den Beständen des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, ed. by R. Eikelmann, M.Weniger and Ch. Melzer (Munich, 2010), no. 18.

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