Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Back, closed (wing, left))

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Angels holding the sun and moon in the spandrels.

Bruges 1902: early 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (crown), brown (cross), red (blood of the wounds).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label: 'Collection de Vinck de Winnezeele' with a heraldic crest. Label pasted on top: '3900' and in pencil, 'P. M. 1525'.

Object Condition
Missing: halo of Christ in the Crucifixion scene; candles held by the angels.

Provenance
Baron Baudouin M. J. J. Ghislain de Vinck de Winnezeele (b. 1878, d. 1966), Antwerp. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
Exposition des Primitif flamands, exhibition catalogue, Bruges, 1902, Section d'art ancien, p. 40, no. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 203; II, no. 407.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 69, 75.

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