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

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

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

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious.

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London, The British Museum

1856,0623.86 (Dalton 298)

Ivory;metal (modern hinges and fittings)

Height: 73mm
Width: 116mm (open)
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 78.3g

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Virgin wringing her hands, wrapping them around the spear; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; sun and moon.

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern ink inscriptions: 'W. M' (for William Maskell), '3' and 'xoλ'.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890)(no. 3); bought from him by the British Museum in 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 298, Pl. LXIX.

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