Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the sun and moon; angels crying.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Pinnacles.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century, c. 1340-c. 1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
No trace of polychromy (see report by A. Cascio and J. Levy, 2002).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Labelled: '274', and in pencil: '[Chen] ue emb] alleur / rue de la Terrasse. Paris / Campe / anc. coll. Campe'.
Object Condition
Ivory cracked; large open crack at the left.
Ivory decayed behind the head of Christ.
Wrenching around the hinges, on the left.
Comments
The left wing of this diptych was on the art market in Paris in 2008 (Brimo de Laroussilhe; see related object).
Provenance
Collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg. Collection of Dr. Alexandre Chompret, Paris (acquired from Simon Goldschmidt, Paris, in 1922); gift of Dr. Chompret, in 1942.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 207, 220, 222, 223, 224; II, no. 608; III, pl. CIII.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 164.
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. 589-90, in relation to no. 176.
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