Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 1677

Ivory;metal (modern hinges)

Height: 168mm
Width: 249mm (open); 124mm (closed)
Depth: 11mm (open); 24mm (closed)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem. Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Meal at Bethany (at the house of Simon the Leper); saint Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's feet; merged with Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table. Agony in the Garden; apostles asleep; trees.
Wing, right
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ. Crucifixion (combined with Nailing to the Cross); Virgin lying at the foot of the cross; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Flagellation.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0805

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: red, blue, green, gold.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Provenance
Acquired by the museum in 1847.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1082.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 805; III, pl. CXXXVII.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 105.

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