Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's arm; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep; shroud.

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Nuremberg 2000: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding (19th century): red (lips, wounds), gold (hair, clothes). Painted quatrefoils decorating the tomb in the Resurrection scene.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Rounded edges.

Provenance
Collection of Freiherr von Eelking, Bremen; acquired in 1880 by the Museum.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 47.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910) no. 624, pl. LXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 176; II, no. 297.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 247-248, no. 226.
Spiegel der Seligkeit: Privates Bild und Frömmigkeit im Spätmittelalter, ed. by G. U. Großmann, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 2000, p. 270, no. 95.

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