Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across, with bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses); known as the Dormeuil Diptych (Back)

Height: 251mm
Width: 156mm (closed), 311mm (open)
Depth: 12-13.5mm
Weight: 1110g

Wing, left
Register 1: Resurrection of Lazarus; Martha and Mary, his sisters; apostle blocking his nose against the dead man's smell; Lazarus, wrapped in a shroud, emerges from the tomb. Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table; Judas reaching out for a fish; ewers; chalice-like cups; knives; cruciform halo.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldiers in armour; lantern; shield with a face; death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden; apostles asleep; trees.
Register 3: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Bode 1897: France, 15th century.
Ganay 1913: France, end of the 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Lowden 2008 and Museum's opinion 2008: Paris, c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Master of the Great Passion Diptychs

Hinges
Three original hinges

Reverse
Flat and smooth. A few scratches. Label with provenance information.

Comments
The vertical borders of both wings were cut, maybe in the 19th-century, for decorative intarsia work, perhaps in ebony (Lowden 2008)

Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 96. Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 7). Dormeuil collection, (at least from 1913): sold, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 11; Thomson collection, Toronto; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 61 (E. Molinier).
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), p. 82, no. 136.
Album Seymour de Ricci, Paris, 1913, pl. 43.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez M. Jacques Seligmann (Paris, 1913), no. 114, pp. 58-59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 285, 286, 290; II, no. 789.
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 23.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 91, in relation to no. 14.
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. 579, in relation to no. 170.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 101.

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