Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Wing, right, back

Wing, left, back

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
www.vam.ac.uk

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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

311-1889

Metal (hinges and clasp);ivory

Height: 97 mm
Width: 132 mm (open)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angel holding the sun and moon.
Angels crying in the spandrels.

Williamson and Davies 2014: French, c. 1350-1375. Radiocarbon dating (2011): 95.4% probability that the elephant died between 1281 and 1394.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges (later).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges.
Missing: nose of one of the Magi.

Provenance
Possenti collection, Fabriano: Possenti da Fabriano sale, Florence, 1-10 April 1880, lot 45 (?). Purchased by the museum from the art dealer A. Marveco, Brompton, in 1889.

Bibliography
Indicazione del Museo del Avori del Conte Girolamo e Giovanni Pettoni-Possenti in Fabriano-Marche (Tolentino, 1877), p. 3, no. 4.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 94.

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