Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Wing, right)

Gabled diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Wing, right)

Gabled diptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Wing, right)

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Wing, left

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Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.64 (Dalton 268)

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasp)

Height: 230mm
Width: 140mm (open); 70mm (closed)
Depth: 10mm
Weight: 418.6g

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); tree.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's hands; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Resurrection with two soldiers asleep and one soldier awake; two angels kneeling on the tomb; armour.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0281

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.All edges chamfered except the lower edge. Ink inscriptions: 'W.M' (for William Maskell), and '124'.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
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. 268, pl. LVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 167; II, no. 281.

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