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

Wing, left
Saint George and the dragon; angel holding his helmet; princess holding the dragon on a leash.
Wing, right
Saint John the Baptist; Standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1370.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: Flemish, 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg. Ernst and M. Kofler-Truniger collection, Lucerne. Thomas Flannery, Winnetka, Illinois: sold, Flannery sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1983, lot 63. Edward R. Lubin, New York. Max Falk, New York: given by him in 1991 to the Walters Art Museum in honour of the former Director and Curator of Medieval Art, Richard H. Randall, Jr.

Bibliography
Katalog Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue (Basel, 1951), no. 30.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.92.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 95.

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