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

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

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

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.199

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 147mm
Width: 192mm
Depth: 8mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity (Virgo lactans) and Annunciation to the shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Beaded borders.

Museum's opinion 2012: French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Chamfered inner edges.
Label with pencil inscription: 'C 345'.

Object Condition
Right wing broken around the lower hinge.

Provenance
Collection of Michael Friedsam (b. 1858, d. 1931): bequest of Michael Friedsam in 1931.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 90 and 112.

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