Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's arm; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; Nicodemus with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Flagellation.

Westwood 1876: France, end of the 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris?, c. 1280-1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges (charnière à tringle).

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Earlier repairs around hinges, groove suggesting hooks connected by rod (rare).

Comments
Same workshop as LP 2714, in the Louvre. See Gaborit-Chopin 2003.

Provenance
Pierre Révoil collection, Lyon; acquired from him by the Musée du Louvre in 1828.

Bibliography
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 878, 879.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 39.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 395-396 ('54.73-74).
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 49.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 151; II, no. 237; III, pl. LXII.
Le Gothique retrouvé, avant Viollet-le-Duc, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sully, 1979-1980, no. 218.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 112.

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