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

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding Christ's hand; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (ground; lily), red (hat in the crucifixion scene), gold (hair; beards; along the hems).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Printed label: '402'.

Object Condition
Broken and repaired to the left of the upper hinge.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 287. Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 41, pl. XXXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 324.
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, 'Documents et œuvres d'art: remarques sur quelques ivoires gothiques français', Cahiers Archeologiques, vol. 55, 2014, p. 128, pl. 12.

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