Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Back)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Back)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

32.100.203

Ivory

Height: 150mm
Width: 80mm
Depth: 10mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll; sun and moon; cruciform halo.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0834

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century (right wing).
British Museum's opinion 2011: German, Upper Rhine (?), late 14th - early 15th century (right wing).
Metropolitan Museum's opinion 2011: German (Mainz), last quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Master (Koechlin)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Ink inscriptions: 'Γ G' and '201'. Round label with inscription: 'C403/203'.

Comments
The right wing is now in the British Museum in London (1856,0623.71 (Dalton 305)).

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

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 304, 325; II, no. 834.
For more bibliography concerning the right wing, see entry for the British Museum piece.

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