Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Unknown location

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Ivory

Height: 185mm
Width: 107mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers; two angels with hands raised.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Utrecht 1987: France, Ile-de-France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Karlsruhe 1999: Paris, 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Provenance
Jack and Belle Linsky collection. Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1985, lot 76. Private collection, Utrecht (at least from 1987 to 1999).

Bibliography
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht... [plates volume of objects on display], Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, 1987, no. 5.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), p. 56, fig. 38.

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