Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Religious.

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Baltimore, Walters Art Museum

Inv. 71.208

Ivory

Height: 196mm
Width: 85mm

Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; city; tree.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table; blessing gesture.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; man holding a lantern; Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1350-1365.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Broken near the upper hinge.

Comments
The right wing was formerly in the Kofler collection (S73). See related object.

Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 300.

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