Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
www.historisches-museum.frankfurt.de

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Frankfurt am Main, Historisches Museum

Inv. X 16668

Ivory;metal (later hinges)

Height: 101mm
Width: 129mm (open)
Depth: 11mm

Wing, left
Saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell; standing Virgin and Child; saint Christopher carrying Christ across the river; angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the sun and the moon.
Blind arches in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of the Brentano family; Brentano bequest to the museum in 1895.

Bibliography
19. Jahresbericht des Vereins für das Historische Museum zu Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt am Main, 1895), p. 21.
K. Wettengl, Frankfurt im Spätmittelalter. Kirche, Stifter, Frömmigkeit (Engl. edition: Frankfurt in the Late Middle Ages. Churches, Donors, Piety), exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Historisches Museum, 1996, no. 65.

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