Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross; two angels holding the sun and the moon; two more angels in the lower spandrels.
In a quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond. Pointed trefoils.
Leeds 1868: Probably French, 14th century.
London 1967: Probably French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: English (?), late 14th century.
Lowden 2013: North French, c. 1325-1350.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (red on the upper and lower parts of the frame; traces of yellow bole on the angels) and gilding (hair and clothes).
Object Condition
Damaged along the bottom edge.
Comments
Randall argued that the right wing of this diptych was at the British Museum (1971,0501.1) (Randall 1993), but it cannot be due to discrepancies in the dimensions of both wings (Lowden 2013).
Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1860; Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.
Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 688.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 20.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 10.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 71 (in relation to no. 62).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 7, pp. 62-67.
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