Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; Death of Judas.
Register 3: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost; Virgin surrounded by the apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Crucifixion; sun and moon; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb.
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi; attendants with horses.

London 1967: Paris, mid 14th century.
Lowden 2013: French (Paris), c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Object Condition
Missing: blessing hand of Christ in the Resurrection partly broken; scroll above Joseph's head in the Nativity broken; head of the dove in the Annunciation is cut off.Lower left corner repaired, front of the Virgin's hem in the Adoration and attached border broken and repaired.

Provenance
Was exhibited at Rouen (unknown date before Gambier Parry acquired it. Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1860 through Mr. Webb (had been previously shown at an exhibition in Rouen); 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
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 682.
A. Blunt, 'The History of Thomas Gambier Parry's Collection', in Burlington Magazine, CIX (March 1967), p. 115.
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. 8.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 12.
D. Farr, 'Thomas Gambier Parry as a Collector', in Thomas Gambier Parry (1816-1888) as Artist and Collector, exhibition catalogue, London, Courtauld Gallery, 1993, no. 87.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 14, pp. 87-91.

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