Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d' arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d' arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d' arcatures) (Front)

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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.66 (Dalton 310)

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 123mm
Width: 79mm (closed)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi; Virgo lactans.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; Virgin and Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; sword.
Crosshatched background. Pointed trefoils.

Dalton 1909: North French or Flemish, late 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, late 18th or early 19th century.

Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890) (no. 12); 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. 310.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 131 n. 50).

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