Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Infancy of Christ.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.301

Ivory

Height: 123mm
Width: 114mm

Register 1: Flagellation; Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ.
Register 2: Flight into Egypt; Fall of the idols (miracle during the Flight into Egypt); Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2010: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Label with inscription: 'IVORY. GOTHIC - TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF CHRIST: FRENCH, 14TH. CENTURY.'

Provenance
Collection of Consul Carl Becker, Frankfurt: sold, Cologne, 23 May 1898, lot 60, part. Thomé collection: sold, Cologne, February 1906, lot 110, part. Bought by Henry Walters from Jacques Seligmann in Paris in 1912; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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