Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 6 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Register 1: Annunciation of the Virgin's death by an angel (Gabriel) with a palm branch; the Virgin in conversation with her maidens; the Virgin's prayer.
Register 2: Miraculous transportation of the apostles, bringing them to the Virgin's deathbed; saint Peter holding a key.
Register 3: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles; Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.

Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Natanson 1951: French (?), c. 1370-1380.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Paris (?), last quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Rhineland (Mainz?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Kremsmünster Master (Koechlin 1924)

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Left border partly broken.

Comments
The lower register of the right wing has survived and is now in the British Museum (1978,0502.5).

Provenance
Acquired in 1902.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 58).
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 39, pl. 50.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 305; II, no. 839; III, pl. CLI.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 38, fig. 56.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 49.

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