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

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Top)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Top)

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Front

Left wing, back

Right wing, back

Bottom

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.

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Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano

Inv. 2835

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 135mm
Width: 150mm
Depth: 8-9mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); tree. Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds. Adoration of the Magi.
Beaded border. Bands of pierced quatrefoils.

Lisbon 1945: French, 15th century.
Camps Cazorla 1949-1950: French, late 14th century.
Camón Aznar 1951: Paris.
Williamson and Davies 2014: 19th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Polychromy: red and blue (inside the pierced quatrefoils).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Label with no. '370'.

Object Condition
Holes in the upper corners of the diptych.

Provenance
Lázaro collection, New York (by 1945).

Bibliography
Colecção Lázaro de Nova Iorque, exhibition catalogue, Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 1945, no. 68.
E. Camps Cazorla, Inventario del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (1949-1950, unpublished).
J. Camón Aznar, Guía abreviada del Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid, 1951), p. 16.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 96.

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