Inv. AN2008.9
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by saint John the Evangelist; onlookers holding scrolls; angels.
Register 2: Deposition with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; man on a ladder, holding a hammer; saint John the Evangelist crying.
London 1923: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Warren 2014: French (Paris), c. 1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy (behind the rosette decoration).
Reverse
Curved. Blue and white label containing the inscription: ‘On loan from Ashmolean Museum Oxford 18’. White label partially torn up containing the inscription: ‘Ashmolean’.
Object Condition
Upper left corner chipped.
Missing: part of the background in the upper register.
Hole in the upper register, beside Christ's feet.
Comments
The right wing is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. 17.190.280). See related objects.
Label with no. ‘72’ in the lower border.
Provenance
Probably collection of William Fletcher (b. 1739, d. 1826); bequeathed to Thomas Robinson (b. 1780, d. 1848); given by him in 1841; Department of Western Art (WA1908.191); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 193.
A List of Donations to the Antiquarian and Ethnological Collections in the Ashmolean Museum from the Year 1836 to the end of the Year 1868 (Oxford, 1870), pp. 13-14.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p.163
R. Koechlin, 'Les Diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1918), p. 229.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 105, pl. XXXIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 150, 155; II, no. 234; III, pl. LXI.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400, State University of New York at Binghamton, PhD 1974 (Ann Arbor, 1986: University Microfilms International), p. 111, fig. 49.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 136-7.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 78, in relation to no. 11.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 158.
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