Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

View other images of this object

Front

Back

Front

Wing, right

Links

Subject
Religious. Passion. Infancy of Christ.

Repository Institution
www.musee-moyenage.fr

To purchase an image
www.photo.rmn.fr

Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 15320

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 102mm
Width: 55mm (each); 115mm (open)
Depth: 7mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and soldiers.
Register 2: Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple with Joseph; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Three holes in each panel, probably corresponding to lost clasps.

Provenance
Bequest of François-Achille Wasset in 1906 (no. 9691).

Bibliography
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 80, in relation to no. 12.

Image

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.