Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924 and Vitali 1976: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Martini and Rizzardi 1990: Paris, c. 1340-1350.
Martini 2004: France (Paris?), c. 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Classense collection, i.e. collection assembled by the Camaldolese monks of Sant'Apollinare in Classe near Ravenna, acquired mainly during the 18th century; with the suppression of religious orders in 1797, the possessions of Ravenna's important abbeys passed on to the Comune of Ravenna; in 1804, the Museo Classense Municipale was established, which would become in 1885 the Museo Nazionale di Ravenna.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 361, no. 14.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 213; II, no. 484.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 27.
Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (Ravenna, 1990), no. 19.
La collezione degli oggetti in avorio e osso. Museo Nazionale di Ravenna, ed. by L. Martini (Ravenna, 2004), pp. 36, 57, no. 19.

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