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Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Gotha, Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein (before WWII)

Elfenbein Nr. 3 (lost)

Ivory;metal (later fittings)

Height: 172mm
Width: 78mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon. 
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Trefoils.


Koechlin Number: 0299

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Däberitz, Bajorat and Wilfroth 1997: France, 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Object Condition
The vase of lilies had been scratched in the Annunciation scene, according to Koechlin in 1924.

Provenance
Documented in the Gotha Schatzkammer inventory in 1858. Lost during WWII.

Bibliography
C. Aldenhoven, Inventar der Gothaer Kunstkammer (Gotha, 1858), I, ch. XXV, no. 98.
C. Aldenhoven, Katalog der Herzoglichen Gemäldegalerie (Herzogliches Museum zu Gotha)(Gotha, 1890), Elfenbein Nr. 3.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 173; II, no. 299.
U. Däberitz, I. Bajorat, R. Wilfroth, Verlustdokumentation der Gothaer Kunstsammlungen, I: Die Kunsthandwerklichen Sammlungen (Gotha, 1997), no. 1.


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