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

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. MA 2031; Inv. MA 2032

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 111mm
Width: 142mm
Depth: 8 mm
Weight: 135.7g

Wing, left
Register 1: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); seated Virgin and Child; two angels crowning the Virgin; musician angels playing string instruments; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Register 2: saint Denis in prison receiving the last communion from Christ; angel holding a chalice; altar. Burning of saint Denis in the furnace.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; sun and moon.
Register 2: Flagellation of saint Denis; saint Denis thrown to the lions; trees.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Berliner 1926 and Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Back of the left wing
Ink inscription: 'Nr. 1402'. Blue and white label with inscription: '403' or '408'. Label with inscription: '379'.
Back of the right wing
Ink inscription: 'Nr. 1403'. Blue and white label with inscription: '391'. Label with inscription: '378'.

Provenance
Collection of Ludwig Joseph von Welden, prince-bishop of Freising; collection of Andreas Ulrich Mayr (b. 1732, d. 1802), councillor and chaplain at the court of the Regensburg prince-bishops (Regensburger Fürstbischöflichen Rat und Hofkaplan): his sale, 1803, lots 178 and 179; acquired at this sale for the royal collections; transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich in 1866.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1398-1399, pl. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 180 n. 5; II, in relation to no. 345.
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. 46.
Schmuck und Gerät aus 'Bein'. Vom Eiszeitalter bis zur Gegenwart, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Prähistorischen Staatssammlung, 7 February-13 April 1997, p. 194, no. 13 (R. Kahsnitz).


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© Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich. Photography: Bastian Krack.

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