Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Passion.

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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

50.195

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 203mm
Width: 202mm
Depth: 11mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass.
Register 2: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldier holding a lantern; Man holding a shield and a halberd; sword.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; trees.
Register 3: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross; sun and moon.

Koechlin Number: 0797

Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1912: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Metropolitan Museum 1951: France (Paris), 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (Paris), c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Chamfered longer edges. Round label with inscription: '20'.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, 1893, lot 106. Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyon: sale, 1912. E. Stora and Co., New York: purchased by the Museum in 1950 thanks to the Rogers Fund.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), vol. I, no. 71 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 20.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 286, 291; II, no. 797; III, pl. 136.
'Recent Accessions' in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Nov. 1951), p. 106.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 218.

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