Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 122mm
Width: 117mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; hanging lamp.
Register 2: Nativity; swaddled Christ. Annunciation to the Shepherds; sheep.
Register 3: Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Virgin in clouds borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption). Coronation of the Virgin; angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Flight into Egypt. Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles.
Register 3: Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents; mother slapping the face of a soldier in armour; sword. Miracle of the Cornfield; peasant; soldier in armour; spear.
Incised trefoils; pinnacles.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy. Some of the gilding in the background has been added between 1906 and 1994, as it does not appear on early photographs.

Provenance
Dmitri Schevitch collection, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4-7 April 1906, lot 149. Drouot, Paris, 30 November 1994, lot 73.

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