Register 1: Doubting Thomas (the incredulity of saint Thomas); Ascension; Pentecost.
Register 2: Deposition; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; Crucifixion with thieves; Carrying of the Cross.
Register 3: Pilate washing his hands or Judas receiving the reward (tbc); Buffeting of Christ; Flagellation.
Pinnacles; pierced quatrefoils.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Evidence of repairs and cracks. Modern ink inscription, 'W. M' (for William Maskell), '123'.
Object Condition
Repaired: Christ on the cross, arch above Mocking of Christ, arch above Ascension.
Comments
Late example of the Soissons group (Dalton 1909)
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890)(no. 123); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. I. L'atelier du diptyque du trésor de Soissons', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 34 (1905), II, pp. 362-379 (p. 375).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 281, pl. LXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 87, 144, 320; II, no. 58.
J. Robinson, Masterpieces of Medieval Art (London, 2008), p. 43.
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