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

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. Life of Christ.

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Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum

1929.8.240.8

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 84mm
Width: 63mm

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; sheep; swaddled Christ.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Randall 1993: Rhenish (?), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of red-brown polychromy on the cross.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks through left hand leaf.

Provenance
Gift of John Gellatly in 1929.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 119.

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