Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.255

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 168mm
Width: 214mm
Depth: 12mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles. Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Borders of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0352

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: blue and red (trefoils), green (trees).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Some scratches.

Object Condition
Hole in the upper part of the left wing.

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, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 42, pl. XXXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 184, 294; II, no. 352.

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