Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 6 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); additional female figure kneeling in donor position.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; tonsured male figure kneeling in donor position.
Brickwork or tiled roof. Pinnacles.

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

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Modern ink inscription, 'W. M' (for William Maskell).

Object Condition
Two holes drilled in upper edge for hanging.

Comments
Similarity with the kneeling figure in British Museum collection, 1856,0509.4 (Dalton 1909)

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); purchased by the British Museum, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 296, pl. LXVIII
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 200, 208, 220, 224; II, no. 615.

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