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

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, kneeling on corbels.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), about 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
The right leaf bears three plugs on each side, except on the inner edge which has two, probably the traces of a frame.Two much smaller ivory plugs appear at the center of the outer sides of the dyptich.

Provenance
Salting collection, London, by 1909: his bequest to the Museum in 1910.

Bibliography
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910)/Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture) (London, 1910), pp. 91-92.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 174, 175; II, no. 320; III, pl. LXXVII.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 19, pl. XVIII.
E. Gross, Religious Relief Ivory Carving During the Regency and the Reign of Charles V of France (1356-1380), (Ann Arbor, 1986), p. 53.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 90.

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