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

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, The Courtauld Gallery

O.1966.GP.10

Ivory

Height: 181mm
Width: 222mm (open)
Weight: 526 g

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angels holding candlesticks; angels swinging censers.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Pinnacles.

Lowden 2013: French (Paris), c. 1325-1350.


Attribution
Atelier aux Visages Caractérisés (Gardner)

Hinges
Two later hinges (possibly 1st half of the 19th century).

Reverse
The back is covered with plaques of ebony that peak in the middle.

Object Condition
The metal catches for two latches are attached to the left edge, but only the upper catch is still attached to the right edge. Large hole (filled) where the lower catch once was, and a smaller hole beneath (unfilled).

Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought between 1860 and 1875; Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.

Bibliography
J. Gardner, 'The Ivories in the Gambier-Parry Collection', in Burlington Magazine, CIX (March 1967), p. 143, fig. 42.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 14.
J. Gardner, 'The Ivories in the Gambier-Parry Collection', in Burlington Magazine, CIX (March 1967), pp. 139, 143, fig. 43.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 14, p. 5.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 14.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 82.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 8, pp. 68-71.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 580-2, in relation to no. 171.


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