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Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcature; colonnettes) (Back)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcature; colonnettes) (Back)
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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Infancy of Christ.

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Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

L 424

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 150mm
Width: 105mm (wing)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity (Virgo lactans) with annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Wing, right
Register 1: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb; three soldiers asleep. Noli me tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; Joseph holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0361

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), 2nd half of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
On the back of the left wing, label with blue border: '424'.

Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.

Bibliography
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 186, 190; II, no. 361; III, pl. LXXXII.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 573-4, in relation to no. 167.


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