Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass. Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; lantern. Flagellation.
Register 3: Entombment, with Holy Women (Anointing of Christ's body). Resurrection; three soldiers asleep; two angels kneeling on the tomb.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table; ewer. Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemani); apostles asleep; trees.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; man holding nails; man holding a hammer. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 3: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene). Doubting Thomas (the incredulity of saint Thomas).
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1360-1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered. Inscription '76.'

Object Condition
Broke to the right of the lower hinge (repaired).
To small holes into extreme outer part of the top and bottom edges.

Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: 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. 76.
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. 118.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 296; II, no. 820.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 23, pl. XXI.
E. K. Gross, Religious relief ivory carving during the regency and reign of Charles V of France (1356 - 1380) (unpublished doctoral thesis, Syracuse University, 1986), pp. 173-174, 248-249, pl. 51
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 102.

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