Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 2 registers, with trefoils arches (Side)

Triptych, 2 registers, with trefoils arches (Side)

Triptych, 2 registers, with trefoils arches (Side)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Cologne, Museum Schnütgen

Inv. B 135

Ivory;metal (later hinges and rosettes)

Height: 112mm
Width: 115mm
Depth: 12mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Resurrection.
Register 2: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide.
Centre panel
Register 1: Christ displaying his wounds; animals (including horses ? and goats).
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; cruciform halo; Virgin raising both hands.
Wing, right
Register 1: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell.
Register 2: unidentified hooded figure with staff.
Blank medallions in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2013: c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, beards, dish of the Agnus Dei; haloes; mane; staff); green (garments; cross).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with inscription: '761'.

Provenance
Collection of Hermann Josef Lückger (b. 1864, d. 1951).

Bibliography
Das Mittelalter in 111 Meisterwerken, ed. by H. Westermann-Angerhausen and D. Täube, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum Schnütgen, 2003, p. 152.

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