Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Longinus shielding his eyes; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; cruciform halo.
Angels holding the sun and the moon in the spandrels

Koechlin 1924: France (Paris), 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1980: Paris.
Krohm 2001: Paris.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Germany (possibly Mainz), last third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Circle of the Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Illegible inscription.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: part of the spear. Hole at the apex of the gable (modern).
Some breakages at the corners and near the hinges.

Provenance
Maillet du Boullay collection. Félix Doistau collection, Paris: donated in 1919 to the Musée du Louvre.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Un atelier d'ivoirier au XIVe siècle', in Bulletin de l'art français (1910), pp. 16-19 (p. 18).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 302; II, no. 831; III, pl. CXLVIII.
R. Randall, 'A Parisian Ivory Carver', in The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, 38 (1980), pp. 60-69 (fig. 4).
H. Krohm, 'Die mittelalterliche Elfenbeine' in KulturStiftung der Länder, Patrimonia, 193 (2001), pp. 6-35.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 220.

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