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Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)
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Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Inv. Pl 36:91

Ivory;brass (hinges;fittings and hook)

Height: 152mm
Width: 90mm (each)
Depth: 11mm

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Virgin raising both hands; sun and moon; cruciform halo.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0403

Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of 2nd third of 14th century.
Jülich 2007: Paris, 1300-1320.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (architectural details; decorative patterns; hair; candlesticks); green (decorative patterns on some garments); red (decorative patterns; on halo; wounds), blue-grey (shoes).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: candles held by the angels.

Provenance
Probably from the collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.

Bibliography
P. A. F. Walther, Die Sammlungen von Gegenständen des Alterums, der Kunst, der Völkerkunde und von Waffen im Großherzoglichen Museum zu Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1844), p. 73.
G. Schaefer, Die Denkmäler der Elfenbeinplastik des Großherzoglichen Museums zu Darmstadt in kunstgeschichtlicher Darstellung (Darmstadt, 1872), p. 70.
Kunstschätze aus dem Großherzoglichen Museum zu Darmstadt, ed. by Nöhring and Frisch (Lübeck, 1872), pl. 14.
F. Back, Großherzoglich Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Führer durch die kunst- und historischen Sammlungen (Darmstadt, 1908), p. 46.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 403.
Kunstschätze aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Hessischen Landesmuseums, Darmstadt, 1948, no. 22.
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 35.


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