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

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

Lost or destroyed

Ivory

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Beaded border.

Koechlin Number: 0456

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: painted medallions in the spandrels and decorative pattern on the background and along the hems.

Provenance
Collection of the Grand Dukes of Hesse, Darmstadt (in 1924). Possibly lost or destroyed during WWII.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 212, 222; II, no. 456.

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