Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost; Virgin surrounded by the apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.

Koechlin 1924: French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Lázaro Galdiano 1926-1927: French, 14th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: Paris, 14th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: Parisian or German.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Hole below the dove's beak.

Comments
Strangely, saint John the Evangelist, to the right of the Virgin, is veiled and thus looks more like a woman.

Provenance
Collection of Léopold Goldschmidt, Paris (sometime before 1924). Lázaro collection (by 1926).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 294; II, no. 813; III, pl. CXL.
J. Lázaro Galdiano, La Colección Lázaro (Madrid, 1926), I, p. 36, no. 31 (B); II, pp. 378-379, no. 892-893.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 14.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 579, in relation to no. 170.

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