Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures, colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ.
Register 2: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies. Visitation. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koekkoek 1987: 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
s'-Heerenberg 2008: Paris, c. 1360-1380
Museum online catalogue 2011: c. 1350-1375

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
The left wing has cracked vertically.

Provenance
Heckscher collection: his sale, Christie's, 4 May 1898, lot 267. Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 483 (purchased by Stora). Collection of Michiel Onnes of Nijenrode (d. 1972), Breukelen: his sale, Amsterdam, 4-7 July 1933, lot 197. Purchased for the museum by Jan Herman van Heek from Brimo de Laroussilhe in Paris before 1948.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 186, 190; II, no. 362.
R. van Luttervelt, Inventarislijst van de varzameling schilderijen, beeldouwwerken, handschriften en andere kunstvoorwerpen, op Huis Bergh, s'-Herenberg, opgemaakt door Dr. R. van Luttevelt, October - November 1948, (typescript, copy held in Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum library), pp. 119-120.
J. H. van Heek, Wat het Huis Bergh in zich houdt (s'-Heerenberg, 1960), pl. 45.
J. H. van Heek, Huis Bergh: kasteel en collectie, ed by R. A. A. van Gruting (Nijmegen, 1987), pl. 80.
Gotische ivoren: Rijksmuseum het Catharijneconvent Utrecht, exhibition catalogue, Utrecht, 1987, no. 16.
R. Koekkoek, Gotische ivoren in het Catharijneconvent (Utrecht, 1987), p. 36, fig. 19.
A. Kutsch Lojenga-Rietberg, Huis Bergh: kasteel - kunst - geschiedenis (s'-Heerenberg, 2000), pp. 133-134, pl. 142.
Voyages of Discovery in the Collections of Huis Bergh, ed. by A. de Vries ('s-Heerenberg, 2008), pp. 38-51 (esp. pp. 41-42), pl. 16.

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