Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Medallions with tracery in the spandrels. Blind arches. Rose windows.
Koechlin 1924: France, late 13th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1280-1290.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (North), c. 1280-1290.
Attribution
Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Labels with inscriptions: 'S 54', 'K 488'.
Object Condition
Missing: parts of Stephaton's spear (including tip and sponge), candlestick of angel on the left hand side of lower register.
Provenance
Collection of Emil Weinberger, Vienna (in 1924). Collection of Herrmann Sax, Vienna: Sax sale, Vienna, Miethke, 4 December 1893, lot 121. Collection of Oscar Bondy, Vienna (1930-1938 when it was confiscated by Nazi officials); restituted to his widow, Elizabeth Bondy, New York by 1950. Blumka Gallery, New York. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne; bought in 1970 by The Cloisters Collection.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 85; II, no. 47; III, pl. XIX.
L'Apocalypse: tapisserien aus der Kathedrale von Angers, exhibition catalogue, Basel, 1951, no. 17, p. 24.
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 17.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.54.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 1964, no. 717.
P. Bloch, 'Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich vom 7. Juni bis 1. September', in Kunstchronik, 17 (1964), p. 265.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter 31 (1965), p. 20.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. One hundred first Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1970, through June 30, 1971 (1971), p. 21, mentioned as purchase.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 53 (in relation to no. 36).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 52, in relation to no. 4.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 553, in relation to no. 157.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), pp. 167-169, in relation to no. 51.
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