Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.275

Ivory;metal (later clasp and hook)

Height: 141mm
Width: 114mm
Depth: 9mm

Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; sun and moon; apostles.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; standing angels holding candlesticks.

Koechlin Number: 0266

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (?), North Italy, or German, possibly Cologne, c. 1350-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Label with printed inscription '464'.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris. 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
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfevrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 44, pl. XXXVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 157; II, no. 266.

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