Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (colonnettes) (Front)

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Front

Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst

Inv. 642; Inv. 643

Ivory;metal (modern hinges)

Height: 173mm
Width: 75mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll; sun and moon.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); tree.
Register 2: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the gate of Hell; souls burning in a cauldron in Hell; demons.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0278

Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Vöge 1900: France, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1340-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Object Condition
Cracks across the left wing.

Provenance
Acquired in 1842 for the Kunstkammer.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 437, no. 872.
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 103-104, pl. XXX.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 44-45, pl. 52.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 167; II, no. 278.

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