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

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker; Longinus with spear in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Flagellation; whips.
Register 3: Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's other hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 3: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the gate of Hell; saint John the Baptist stands beside Christ; souls of the damned thrown into the mouth of Hell; demons.

Koechlin 1912: German imitation of the French style, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: German imitation of the French style, end of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: carved by an English carver possibly working in Spain, 1st quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Four hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair, beards, halos, crosses, painted quatrefoils on the tomb), green (tree), brown (spear, whips, designs on the tomb), blue (clothes).

Object Condition
Some of the hinge miters have been filled with ivory.

Provenance
Paul collection (no. 557). Collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon. Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1950 (Gift of Miss Olive Hosmer).

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective (Dresden, 1906), no. 1429.
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 20bis.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 297; II, no. 823bis; III, pl. CXLVI.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts (Montreal, 1960), p. 31.
L. de Moura Sobral, 'La Crucifixion vue à travers les âges', in Quarterly Review of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 6 (Spring 1975), p. 17, fig. 7.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 53 (mistake in provenance information).

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