Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front, detail)

Diptych, 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front, detail)

Diptych, 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front, detail)

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Infancy of Christ.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre; on loan to the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Metz

OA 7777

Ivory

Height: 171mm
Width: 140mm (total); 69mm (each)
Depth: 8-10mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 3: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; sun and the moon; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; Saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Register 2: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 3: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Border of dentils. Beaded borders.

Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2013: Meuse or Germany, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered.

Object Condition
Missing: the column at the left of the Annunciation scene.
Breakage around the lower hinge (repair visible when closed).

Provenance
Collection of Louis Hugot, Paris; bequest of Louis Hugot to the Museum in 1924; on loan to the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Metz, by arrêté of 24 April 1987.

Bibliography
E. Gross, Religious Relief Ivory Carving During the Regency and the Reign of Charles V of France (1356-1380), (Ann Arbor, 1986), pp. 90-91, 203-204.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 265.

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