Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 8 arches across and 1 arch across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi; Entry into Jerusalem. Saint Peter holding a key.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ; cushion.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Judgement (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (rugged cross; crown of thorns; nails; spear); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling; angels praying.
Register 2: under 1 arch, Resurrection of the Dead; souls rising from their tombs, including a key, bishops with mitre and crozier; castle; brickwork.
Angels blowing trumpets in the spandrels.
Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Ink inscription: '9'. Label with inscription: '77'.

Provenance
Probably from the collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.

Bibliography
P. A. F. Walther, Die Sammlungen von Gegenständen des Alterums, der Kunst, der Völkerkunde und von Waffen im Großherzoglichen Museum zu Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1844), p. 73.
F. Noack, Die Geburt Christi in der bildenden Kunst bis zur Renaissance im Anschluss an Elfenbeinwerke des Großherzoglichen Museums zu Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1894), pp. 7-8, pl 3.
F. Back, Großherzoglich Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Führer durch die kunst- und historischen Sammlungen (Darmstadt, 1908), p. 46.
Kunstschätze aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1948), no. 24.
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 46.

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