Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Holy Women; vine leaf pattern on the tomb.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon; angels wringing their hands.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb; two soldiers asleep and one awake; shield.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: French, third quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat.
Wing, left: red label with printed inscription 'EXHIBITION OF ART TREASURES 1857. Goodrich Court.' Handwritten inscription added onto it: '1328' and, '176, Maskell's Ivories'. White labels pasted over the red label: '75' with added handwritten inscription '118 Maskell's Ivories'. White label: '2981' and added in pencil 'P.M. 151[...tbc]'. White label with handwritten inscription: 'Nos 1326-1328 Meyrick Collection/French 14th century/described in Maskell's Ivories p 176 Appendix'.
Wing, right: same red label with handwritten inscription added onto it: '1326'. White label pasted over it: '76'.

Provenance
Collection of Francis Douce; Collection of Samuel Rush Meyrick (b. 1783, d. 1848), Goodrich Court, Herefordshire (exhibited at Goodrich Court, 'Exhibition of Art Treasures' in 1857). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentlemen's Magazine (April 1836), no. 27.
Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, collected at Manchester in 1857, exhibition catalogue, 1857.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 176, no. 1.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292, n. 1; II, no. 800bis.
French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Yokohama City Museum, 1989, no. 15.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 97 (notes).

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