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

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

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

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

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

17.190.251

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 178mm
Width: 191 mm (open)
Depth: 9 mm

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 holding a shawm; sheep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers; two angels kneeling on the sides of the bench or on corbels.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Koechlin Number: 0292bis

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Printed label: '3040'.Remains of another label on the back of the right wing.

Object Condition
Drilled hole in the upper part of each wing.

Provenance
Probably collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 272 (description and measurements correspond). Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 173; II, no. 292bis.

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