Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; two angels crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angels holding the Sun and the Moon.
Pinnacles.

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern printed labels: 'National exhibition of works of art, Leeds 1868. Picture galleries, Dr Charlton, proprietor'. Label with handwritten inscription: 'Diptych. Late 13th cent.'.

Object Condition
Missing: candles held by the angels.
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Dr. Charlton (in 1868). Collection of A. W. Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897); donated by him to the British Museum in 1894.

Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 705
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 269, Pl. LVI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 203; II, no. 406.

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