Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15322

Ivory

Height: 109mm
Width: 74mm

Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Register 2: Entry into Jerusalem.

Koechlin Number: 0800

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, end of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
Broken around the upper hinge. Damaged lower left corner.
Missing: part of the background beside the ass's leg.
Cracked.
Central hole in the upper part of the panel and smaller hole in the upper border.

Comments
The right wing is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon (see related objects).

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9693).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 800.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 19 (right wing).

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