Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.214

Ivory;metal (hinges;clasp)

Height: 170mm
Width: 205mm (open)
Depth: 11mm (open)

Wing, right
Register 1: Flagellation. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; Dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity (Virgo lactans); hanging lamp.
Wing, right
Register 1: Resurrection; two angels in prayer by the tomb; three soldiers asleep. Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels. Rounded trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0359

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel, Paris (b. 1855, d. 1915); collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York (until 1917); estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 40, pl. XXXIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 185; II, no. 359.

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