Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 2 full and a half arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 3 registers, 2 full and a half arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 3 registers, 2 full and a half arches across (colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Repository Institution
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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.59 (Dalton 283)

Ivory

Height: 250mm
Width: 170mm (open); 85mm (closed)
Depth: 12mm
Weight: 447.9g

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with thieves; Longinus standing in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Death of Judas (Judas hanging); Christ before Pilate (Pilate washing his hands); Flagellation.
Register 3: Judas receiving the reward; Betrayal (Taking of Christ); Saint Peter cuts Malchus' ear.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Entombment; apostles crying.
Register 3: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; saint John the Baptist stands beside Christ; souls burning in Hell; demons.

Koechlin Number: 0061ter

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: German (?), 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: English (?), 2nd half of the 14th century (in relation to Louvre, OA 8270).
Museum's opinion 2011: German (?), 2nd half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Modern wooden inserts near hinges.

Provenance
Acquired in France. Collection of Thomas Windus (b. 1778, d. 1854). Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 283, pl. LXIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, 89, 113; II, no. 61ter.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), p. 490, fig. 223a.

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