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

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils.

Westwood 1876: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Natanson 1951: French, c. 1340-1360.
Gaborit-Chopin 1978: Paris, c. 1340-1350.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1330-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Inscription '82.'

Object Condition
The left leaf has a severe crack towards the lower left.

Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.

Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 82.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 6.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 90.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 201, no. 464 (`73.170).
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 483.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 200, 213, 222, 223, 224, 303; II, no. 481; III, pl. XXXIX.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 24, pl. XIV.
C. R. Morey, 'A Group of Gothic Ivories in the Walters Art Gallery', in Art Bulletin, 18 (1936), p. 209.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 36, pl. 36.
Liverpool Ivories: Special Exhibition, British Museum, (London, 1954), p. 16.
V. Gurewich, 'Observations on the Iconography of the Wound in Christ's Side', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes vol. 10 (1957), p. 360, n. 28, pl. 27d.
Transformations of the Court Style: Gothic art in Europe, 1270 to 1330, ed. by D. Gillerman, exhibition catalogue, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1977, p. 49, no. 17.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 209, no. 237.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, p. 188.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, p. 241.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory. Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 85.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 396.
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, 'Documents et œuvres d'art: remarques sur quelques ivoires gothiques français', Cahiers Archeologiques, vol. 55, 2014, p. 128, pl. 12.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 571, 573-4, in relation to no. 165 and no. 167.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 84.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.