Register 1: two Holy Women at the tomb, with angel seated on the tomb. Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; demon.Register 2: Crucifixion; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Longinus covering his eyes; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar. 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 3: Christ before Pilate. Buffeting of Christ; head of Christ covered by a cloth.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Von Philippowich 1961: French, c. 1325.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: Probably Southern Germany (Upper Rhine?), c. 1320-1330.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: Paris?, c. 1280-c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three hinges on the left side. Groove suggesting a rod connected the three hinges (charnière à tringle).
Object Condition
Numerous vertical cracks.
Comments
The left wing is now LP 2714 in the Musée du Louvre.
Provenance
Collection of Emile Baboin, Lyons (at least 1912-1924). J. van der Elst, Rome. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, in 2012 (M.-A. Carlier, Art du Moyen Age XIe-XIVe siècle, Paris, Galerie Brimo de Laroussilhe, 12 September-31 October 2012, no. 26).
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques. Collection Émile Baboin (Lyons, 1912), no. 10.
M. de Laborde, Notice des émaux, bijoux et objets divers exposés dans les galeries du musée du Louvre (Paris, 1857), no. 875 (left wing).
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 41 (left wing).
J.O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 414 ('54.90).
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 96 (left wing).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 151, 154; II, no. 239.
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 21, pl. 22, pp. 19-20.
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), fig. 48, figs 63-64.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 7 June-2 August 1964, no. 735, p. 80, pl. 70.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.72, p. 24.
H. Schnitzler, P. Bloch, C. Ratton and F. Volbach, Mittelalterliche Elfenbein- und Emailkunst aus der Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, 1965, no. S.72, pp. 23-24, 112.
Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. May, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968, no. D. 14.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), pp. 318-319, no. 111 (left wing), fig. 111a.
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