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

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Register 2: Visitation; vase of lilies.
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi with Virgin standing.
Wing, right
Register 1: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldiers in armour.
Register 2: Crucifixion; Virgin and Holy Women; soldiers; sword; spear.
Register 3: Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); kneeling angel; Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist; souls rising from their tombs; demon.
Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: face, right arm and left hand of the demon; right hand of Elizabeth.
Faces worn. Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847, d. 1922?), Saint Petersburg: his sale, 1897, lot 182 (Katalog kollektsii predmetov iz slonovoi kosti S. N. Mitusova (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 182). Colelction of the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh); transferred to the Hermitage in 1933.

Bibliography
Srednevekovoe prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha v g. Sankt-Peterburge: kratkii katalog vystavki, exhibition catalogue, Vyborg, Vyborg Historico-architectural and Fine Arts Museum, 1993, no. 52.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 192.

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