Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France (?), c. 1350.
Nuremberg 2000: France (Paris?), c. 1350-1370.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
No traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Light scratches. Remains of a red wax seal.

Object Condition
Broken to the left of the upper hinge and to the right of the lower hinge.
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Freiherr von Eelking, Bremen (in 1850); acquired in 1880 by the Museum.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 46.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 623, pl. LXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 170, 171, 173; II, no. 301.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), p. 246, no. 224.
Spiegel der Seligkeit: Privates Bild und Frömmigkeit im Spätmittelalter, ed. by G. U. Großmann, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, 2000, pp. 268, 269, no. 94 (A. Curtius).

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