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

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

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

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Front

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.83 (Dalton 289)

Ivory;metal (later hinged frame)

Height: 61mm
Width: 116mm (open); 58mm (closed)
Depth: 8mm
Weight: 76.7g

Wing, left
Saint Clare holding a pyxis, or saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment pot; standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and sword.
Wing, right
Saint Agnes with a lamb and book; unidentified female saint with martyr's palm (possibly saint Barbara); saint Margaret emerging from the dragon unharmed, holding a crucifix; blessing hand of God.

Koechlin Number: 0577

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Unable to view due to modern metal mount.

Object Condition
Vertical crack through the right wing.

Comments
Modern metal mount.

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. 289, pl. LXIX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 217; II, no. 577.

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