Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Wing, left
Register 1: angel holding a vessel.
Register 2: saint Mary Magdalene with ointment pot.
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment.
Wing, right
Register 1: angel holding an object.
Register 2: saint John the Evangelist (or unidentified female saint?) holding a martyr's palm and book.
Incised trefoil in the gable.

Attribution
Unknown

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914).

Bibliography
O. von Falke, 'Das Tristankästchen der Eremitage', in Pantheon (February 1928), pp. 75-80, fig. 7.

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Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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