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

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Westwood 1876: France, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Morey 1936: Southern Germany, 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Vertical break across the right wing. Modern insertion in the lower border of the left wing.

Provenance
Mentioned in the inventory of Clement XIII, pope from 1758 to 1769 (Inv. Clemente XIII, f. 93v).

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, no. 22, p. 349.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 63, pl. XVI.
A. Rossi, 'Les Ivoires gothiques français du Vatican', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1905, I, p. 396 (mirror image).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 174-175; II, no. 321.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 83, no. A100, pl. XXVI.

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