Gothic Ivories Project | Originally gabled wing (fragment of a polyptych or tabernacle), 3 registers, 1 arch across, bands of roses (décor de roses) (Front)

Register 1: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and two soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Hinged on both sides. Iron hinges.

Reverse
Inscription: '8809/R-73101/las dos tiras'.

Object Condition
Missing: the gabled upper part has been cut.
Broken around the hinges. Rusted hinges.

Comments
Considered to be a fragment of the same polyptych as 71.175 (see related object).
This part was the second wing from the left. The centre part certainly contained a crucifixion in high relief.

Provenance
Unknown collection, Spain. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in 1923 in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
L. Randall, 'Games and the Passion in Pucelle's Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux', in Speculum, 47, no. 2 (April 1972), fig. 6.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 290a.

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