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Gabled triptych, 3 registers, trefoil arches (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)

Gabled triptych, 3 registers, trefoil arches (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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Madrid, Instituto Valencia de Don Juan

Inv. I. 4874

Ivory;metal (hinges;clasp);pearls and gems (added)

Height: 170mm
Width: 165mm
Depth: 40mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Three Magi before Herod.
Register 2: Journey of the Three Magi; three Magi on foot.
Register 3: Journey of the Three Magi; three kings on horseback.
Centre panel
Register 1: Annunciation. Flight into Egypt; Virgin holding Christ. Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ.
Register 2: Annunciation to the Shepherds; sheep. Nativity. Visitation.
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi. Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents; soldier killing a child with his sword; soldier in armour.
Wing, right
Register 1: the Dream of the Magi; bed.
Register 2: Journey of the Three Magi; three kings on horseback.
Register 3: Massacre of the Innocents (continuing from the centre panel).
Medallions enclosing hexafoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles (added). Foliated decoration in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0044

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 13th century.
Natanson 1951: French (?), c. 1300.
Murcia 2009-2010 (Bango Treviso): French (?), end of the 13th century.
Mingorance Serrano 2013: France, 1st third of the 14th century.


Attribution
Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Koechlin 1924)

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: architectural details, dotted pattern on the background, base decorated with a foliated pattern.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
The pinnacles, the base and the gems and pearls were added in the 19th century.

Comments
In 1873, pearls and gems were already adorning the triptych.

Provenance
Collection of Don Juan Palou Comasema, Palma de Mallorca, in 1873 (see Ferrá and Virenque 1873). Collection of the Countess of Valencia de Don Juan, at least from 1893, as it was exhibited as such at the Exposición Histórico-Europea in Madrid (recorded in 1909 in the handwritten Catálogo General de arte antiguo propiedad de la Condesa de Valencia de Don Juan with the following description: 'Valencia, tríptico pequeño con pedrería, asuntos de la vida de la Virgen, P (París), Francia, s. XIV, 9.750 pesetas').

Bibliography
B. Ferrá, J. Virenque, Album Artístico de Mallorca. Collección fotográfica de los objetos más notables por su valor artístico e histórico que se conservan en nuestra isla (Palma de Mallorca, 1873), pp. 9-10, pl. 1.
Exposición Histórico-Europea, exhibition catalogue, Madrid, 1892, album, no. 123, pl. LXXXX.
Exhibited at the Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, not catalogued.
E. Serrano Fatigati, 'Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones', XI (April 1903), pp. 73-74 (with ill.).
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), pp. 361-379 (p. 376).
A. Vives Escudero, Inventario de los monumentos artísticos de España: Provincia de Baleares, 1905-1909, I, p. 542, III, fig. 336.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 89; II, no. 44; III, pl. XVIII.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 91.
J. Natanson, Gothic Ivories of the 13th and 14th Centuries (London, 1951), p. 34, fig. 20.
M.-M. Estella Marcos, 'La talla del marfil', in Historia de las artes aplicadas e industriales de España, ed. by A. Bonet Correa, vol. 8 (Madrid, 1982), pp. 435-462.
M.-M. Estella Marcos, La Escultura de marfil en España románica y gótica (Madrid, 1984), pp. 167-169, fig. 39.
M.-M. Estella Marcos, 'Triptic amb escenes de la infancia de Crist', in Mallorca Gótica, exhibition catalogue, Barcelona, MNAC, 17 December 1998-28 February 1999 and Palma, Llonja, April-May 1999, pp. 269-271.
Alfonso X el Sabio, ed. by I. Bango Torviso, exhibition catalogue, Murcia, 2009-2010, pp. 351-353 (C. I. Bango García).
L. Mingorance Serrano, Los Marfiles Góticos del Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, unpublished MA dissertation, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 2013, no. 9.


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