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Diptych, 1 register (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register (plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 1950

Metal (later hinges and hanging loops);ivory

Height: 92 mm
Width: 118 mm (open)
Depth: 10 mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the gable; pinnacles.


Koechlin Number: 0392

Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later ring hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Right wing broken into two pieces which have been glued together.
Missing: hands of the left hand side angel; candle held by the angel on the right; hands of the crowning angel; part of the background in the Crucifixion scene.
Later hanging loops at the top of each panel.

Comments
Koechlin gives the measurements of each wing as 110 x 83mm (see Koechlin 1924).

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Petrograd [Saint Petersburg]; acquired by the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Ukazatel' vystavki starinnykh khudozhestvennykh predmetov i kartin v pol'zu uchrezhdenii, sostoiashchikh pod pokrovitel'stvom ee i. v. vel. kniagini Marii Pavlovny (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 13, p. 57.
A. N. Benois, 'Sobranie Mikhaila Pavlovicha Botkina v Peterburge' in Khudozhestvennye sokrovishcha Rossii (Saint Petersburg, 1901), Vol. 2, pp. 41, 58.
Sobranie M. P. Botkina (Saint Petersburg, 1911), Table 56.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 392 (incorrect dimensions).
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 76.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (St Peterburg, 2014), no. 97.


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