Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes); also known as Diptyque du Christ Juge (Wing, left)

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding Christ's arm.
Musician angels in the spandrels (rebec, psaltery).
Wing, right
Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (cross; spear; nails; crown of thorns (?)); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling. Under a trefoil arch: Resurrection of the Dead.
Angels blowing trumpets in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1300; attributed to the same workshop as Louvre, OA 2761.

Attribution
Atelier of the Diptych of the Judging Christ (Atelier du diptyque Du Christ Juge) (Gaborit-Chopin); Atelier aux visages caractérisés (Koechlin)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Label marked 'no. 489'.

Object Condition
Broken around the upper hinge. Borders have been reworked in order to accommodate a metal frame (now lost).

Provenance
Collection of Baron Jean-Charles Davillier, no. 44; bequest of J.-C. Davillier in 1883.

Bibliography
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Donation du baron Charles Davillier. Catalogue des objets exposés au musée du Louvre (Paris, 1885), no. 44.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 90.
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 483.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 205, 279, 280, 282; II, no. 775; III, pl. CXXXI.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 104.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen-Age (Freiburg, 1978), pp. 145-146, no. and fig. 215, 216.
B. Guineau, 'Etude des couleurs dans la polychromie des ivoires médiévaux', in Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (1996), pp. 188-210 (p. 206).
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 102-104 (fig. VII-4).
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 90 and p. 153.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 125.

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