Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right, back)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; soldier with heart-shaped shield with a face; angels holding the sun and the moon; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Saint Agnes with a lamb, martyr's palm and book; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; standing Virgin and Child; saint Michael and the devil.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women.
Register 2: Saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife; saint Andrew with a saltire cross; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; saint Peter holding a key; saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Berliner 1926: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Munich 2010: Netherlands (?), 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Back of the left wing
Partly erased inscription: '[Aus der] Residenz'. Inscriptions: 'Nr. 1400' and '243'.
Back of the right wing
Partly erased inscription: 'Aus [der] Residenz'. Inscriptions: 'Nr. 1401' and '243'. Geometric incisions.

Object Condition
The upper left corner of the right wing broke off and was glued back into place, but some loss in the background of the upper register. Cracked.
Burnt area around the middle arch of the upper register.

Provenance
Residenz, Munich (see inscriptions on the back). Transferred from the Königliche Vereinigte Sammlungen, Munich to the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich in 1866.

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter. II, Gotische Alterthümer der Baukunst und Bildnerei, by H. Graf, G. Hager and J. A. Mayer (Munich, 1896), VI, no. 1370-1371, pl. XXVII.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), no. 54.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten: ausgewählte Werke aus den Beständen des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, ed. by R. Eikelmann, M. Weniger and C. Melzer, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 2010, no. 20.

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