Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead under a trefoil arch (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails, spear, cross); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling; souls rising from their tombs.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Molinier 1904: French, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Little 1979: c. 1300.
Museum's opinion 2012: French (Paris), 2nd half of the 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (decoration on the tomb).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Blue and white label with handwritten inscription: '67... ivoire'. White label with printed '1021'. Blue label with printed '434'.
Object Condition
Chipped in the upper part of the reverse.
Comments
The left wing is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Provenance
Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne: sale 1906; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p. 30, no. 67.
R. Koechlin, 'Les Diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts LX (1918), p. 229.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 150, 155; II, no. 234; III, pl. LXI.
M.M.A. Pierpont Morgan Wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (1929), p. 110, ill. fig. 58.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art 46 (1979), p. 65.
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. 131, fig. 9a.
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, p. 554, in relation to no. 158.
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