Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.273

Ivory, metal (hinges)

Height: 146mm
Width: 208mm (open)
Depth: 9mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Judas reaching out for a fish; chalice; ewer.
Register 2: Flagellation. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.
Register 2: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb.

Koechlin Number: 0372

Molinier 1904: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy (modern): red, blue, black, green, gold.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: left foot of Christ and lower column in flagellation scene.

Provenance
Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne: sale 1906; collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), no. 74, pl. LV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 187, 188, 294; II, no. 372.
The Life of Christ, exhibition catalogue, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1948, no. 201.

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