Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

Inv. 90/288

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 200mm
Width: 115mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear standing in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; angels crying.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); saint John the Evangelist; Virgin; three soldiers asleep; coat of mail.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Sprinz 1925: France, 14th century.
Thyssen 1986: Paris or Northern France, c. 1330-1340.
Museum's opinion 2014: 19th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen (no. 1589), at least 1925-1928. Collection of Ottmar Strauss (b. 1878, d. 1941), Cologne.

Bibliography
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), p. 4, no. 8, pl. 6 (inv. No. 1589).
Verzeichnis der im Städelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1928, no. 244.
Sammlung Fritz Thyssen: ausgewählte Meisterwerke, ed. by F. Thyssen, P. Eikemeier, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 18 July-2 November 1986, pp. 58-59, no. 23.

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