Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Triptych, 2 registers, with arches (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Notre Dame (Indiana), University of Notre Dame, The Snite Museum of Art

1967.044

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 279mm
Width: 241mm
Depth: 64mm
Weight: 598g

Wing, left
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; two angels.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pinnacles.

Museum's opinion 2012: Flemish, 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Reverse
Label with inscription: '24305' and sale catalogue label: 'An ivory triptych carved [with] scenes from the Passion, in arcaded panels, French, 14th century'.

Object Condition
Two large sections have been repaired with different material on the back.

Comments
This triptych, as Richard Randall noted in 1988 (unpublished), reproduces the so-called Triptych of Saint-Sulpice-du-Tarn now in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 13101).

Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Josefa Carlebach in 1967.

Bibliography
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400, State University of New York at Binghamton, PhD 1974, fig. 50.

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