Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.179

Ivory

Height: 122mm
Width: 60mm
Depth: 9mm

Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding navettes and candlesticks; two angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Resurrection; four kneeling angels on the tomb; three soldiers asleep.
Beaded borders. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0330

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Blue and white label covered with two later labels. One has '2983' and 'P.M. 493', and the other has '757'.

Object Condition
Broken around the upper hinge. Pierced by a hole in upper border.

Provenance
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
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 330.

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