Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Wing, left)

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; dove of the Holy Spirit; dove of the Holy Spirit issuing from the mouth of God the Father; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); two kneeling angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Incised trefoils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding: gold (hair, crowns, star, gifts, censers, etc.).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Two holes in the outer border of each panel.

Provenance
Collection of Wilhelm Clemens (b. 1847, d. 1934), Cologne: donated with the rest of his collection to the city of Cologne in 1919-1920.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 209; II, no. 508.
Die Sammlung Clemens, ed. by B. Klesse, H.-U. Haedeke and H. Griese, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1963, no. 98, p. 25.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, p. 188.

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