Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Register 1: saint Laurence holding a gridiron; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint Stephen holding a stone.
Register 2: saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot; saint Andrew with a saltire cross; Saint Peter holding a key; saint Paul with a sword; saint Agnes with a lamb.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Bertaux 1912: France, 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, early 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.Sword of Saint Paul broken; lamb of Saint Agnes chipped.

Comments
The style of the arches and figures is somewhat reminiscent of the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs.

Provenance
Collection of Maurice Kann: sold Paris, 5-8 December 1910, lot 213. Collection of Claudius Côte, Lyon; bequest of Mrs. C. Côte to the Museum 1962.

Bibliography
E. Bertaux, Quelques pièces de la collection Claudius Côte (Lyon, 1912), plate XVII.
H. Landais, 'La collection Claudius Côte. Département des Objets d'art', in Revue du Louvre, 1961, p. 130.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 133).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 242.

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