Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Christ holding a fruit; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist with onlookers holding scrolls; Sun and Moon; rugged cross.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1993: In relation to no. 89, German, 1340-1360.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Note: the order of the provenance has not be checked.

Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 38, pl. XXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 217; II, no. 567.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 82, in relation to no. 89.

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