Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled diptych, 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled diptych, 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled diptych, 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.272

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 158mm
Width: 138mm
Depth: 10mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit. Midwives and Virgin bathing Christ.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Flight into Egypt; palm trees.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist. Pietà (Deposition), with two Holy Women.
Register 2: Two soldiers guarding the tomb; one soldier asleep. Resurrection; two figures kneeling in prayer; angels.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2012: Italy, late 19th or early 20th century in a 15th century style.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Printed label: cutting from the Keele Hall sale catalogue: 'From Keele Hall, Staffordshire'.

Object Condition
Cracks around the lower hinge.

Provenance
Collection of Reverend Walter Sneyd, Keele, Staffordshire (see label on the back). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

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