Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 3 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Register 1: Christ holding the soul of the Virgin in Heaven; musician angels (harp; rebec).
Register 2: Assumption; Virgin in a mandorla borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption); musician angels (rebec, psaltery); two angels holding candlesticks.
Register 3: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); crowned Virgin; apostles.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: French, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: Spain, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: England?, last third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Style reminiscent of the Atelier of the Master of the Great Passion Diptychs (Gaborit-Chopin)

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Labelled: 'on loan from / J. Malcolm esq. / sep. 6 1867', 'National exhibition of Works of Art / Leeds 1865 / Museum of Art / J. Malcolm esq. / proprietor', '3486', '362'.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: upper part of the panel.Wrenching around the hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Colonel Malcom of Poltalloch (1865), sold in London, 1913, no. 22; Georges Dormeuil collection, Paris; gift of G. Dormeuil, 1934, accepted 1935.

Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1867.
Catalogue of Bronzes and Ivories, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1879.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 140, II, no. 215, III, pl. LIV.
P. Verlet, 'La donation Dormeuil au département des Objets d'art', in Bulletin des Musées de France, November 1946, p. 5.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p. 96.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 53 (cited).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 223.

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