Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Border of dentils.

Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Portland and Fort Worth 2000: France, mid 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Hinges restored. Minor cracks on the framing.

Provenance
Collection of Gregorii Sergeievich Stroganoff (b. 1829, d. 1910), Saint Petersburg; gifted in 1902 to the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh), Saint Petersburg; transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Katalog Muzeia Imperatorskogo Obshchestva pooshchreniia khudozhestv (Saint Petersburg, 1904), no. 431, p. 77.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 77.
Zachodnioeuropejska rzezba z kosci w latach 1100-1290 ze zbiorow Panstwowego Ermitazu v Leningradzie, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, The National Museum, 1981, no. 21.
P. Hunter-Stiebel ed., Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family, exhibition catalogue, Portland, Portland Art Museum and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, February-May 2000 and July-October 2000, no. 203.
Stroganovy: metsenaty i kollektsionery, exhibition catalogue, Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum, 2003, no. 291.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 95.

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