Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Randall 1985: French or Mosan, c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Ivory; metal (hinges)
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Two holes in the upper edge. Hole in the left edge for a clasp.
Missing: part of the head of one of the apostles.
Comments
The right wing is 71.280 in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. See related object.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1979, lot 33. Collection of the British Railways Pension Fund, on loan to the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore from 1980 to 1996: British Rail sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1996, lot 5. Private collection, London (in 2010; bought from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris, 9 January 2006).
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 222 (in relation to no. 318, which is the other leaf).
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