Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Flagellation.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Griggs 1904-1907: England, 14th century.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Liverpool Ivories 1954: French, c. 1330-1350.
Gibson 1994: French, 1350-1360.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), about 1330-50.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the lower right border; broken around the hinges.
Two holes in the upper part of the panel.

Comments
The right wing of this diptych is Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, M 8004. See related objects.

Provenance
Collection of Henry Willett (b. 1823, d. 1905), Brighton: purchased from him by the Museum in 1896.

Bibliography
List of Objects in the Art Division South Kensington Museum Acquired During the Year 1896. Arranged according to the Dates of Acquisition, with Appendix and Indices (London, 1900), p. 25.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXXIV.
E. S. Prior, A. Gardner, Mediaeval Figure-Sculpture in England (Cambridge, 1912), p. 378, fig. 437.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 170-171; II, no. 290; III, pl. LXXIV.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927-1929), II, pp. 18-19, pl. XIII.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London, British Museum, 1954, p. 16, no. 35.
Chaucer’s London, exhibition catalogue, London, London Museum, 1972, no. 250.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 887, no. 35.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 176.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 88.

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