Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (Back)

Wing, left
Standing Magi (part of Adoration of the Magi).
Wing, right
Seated Virgin and Child with adoring Magus.

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding in the canopy, crowns, hair of Christ and objects in the figure's hands. Black and red polychromy on features of figures.

Reverse
Smooth. Chamfered along the longer sides. Inscriptions recording the BM number and Dalton number; inscription at the back of the left wing: '69', 'W.M.' (probably for William Maskell), and '5'.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); bought from him by the Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 263, PL. LIX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 212; II, no. 467.

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