Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
kunsthalle-st-annen.de

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Lübeck, Kunsthalle St. Annen

Inv. 2306

Ivory;silver (hinges;clasps);enamel (on clasps;nearly completely lost)

Height: 185mm
Width: 120mm (each); 242mm (open)
Depth: 24mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles. Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep.
Register 2: Flagellation. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.

Koechlin Number: 0803

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
O. Pelka, Elfenbein (Berlin, 1920), p. 196.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 803.
J. Wittstock, Kirchliche Kunst des Mittelalters und der Reformationszeit, exhibition catalogue, Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum, 1981, no. 151 (ill. on p. 203).
H. Krohm, 'Die mittelalterliche Elfenbeine' in KulturStiftung der Länder, Patrimonia 193 (2001), pp. 6-35, fig. 14.

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