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New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection
1970.324.7
Ivory;metal (hinges;clasp)
Height: 127mm
Width: 65mm (per wing)
Depth: 19mm
Wing, left
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; bench.
Register 2: under a trefoil arch, souls of the blessed led to heaven by angels.
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ in Glory (Last Judgement); Christ displaying his wounds; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails, cross, spear); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Register 2: under a trefoil arch, Resurrection of the Dead; souls rising from their tombs; souls of the damned thrown into the mouth of hell; angels blowing trumpets; demons.
Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Cologne 1960: c. 1330.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, late of the 13th century.
Amsterdam 1994: France, c. 1260-1270.
Van Os 1996: France, 13th century.
Detroit 1997: France (Paris), c. 1250-1270.
Wlliamson 1997: France (Paris), c. 1260-1270.
Museum's opinion 2012: France (probably Paris), c. 1260-1270.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two modern hinges.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Broken around the hinges (repaired).
Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Köfler-Truniger, Lucerne; bought by the Museum in 1970.
Bibliography
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 23.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.57.
P. Lasko, 'A Notable Private Collection', in Apollo (June 1964), pp. 464-473, ill. 19, p. 471.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 1964, no. 720, p. 77, pl. 67.
P. Block et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter 31 (1965), p. 20.
Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. May, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968, no. D 10, ill. 7.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art 46 (1979), pp. 58-67 (p. 64, fig. 20).
P. Verdier, Le Couronnement de la Vierge: les origines et premiers développements d'un thème iconographique' (Montreal, 1980), p. 10, pl. 88.
Europe in the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987, p. 92, ill. 83.
W. D. Wixom, 'Medieval sculpture at The Cloisters', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XLVI-3 (winter 1988-1989), p. 60.
B. Young, A Walk Through The Cloisters (New York, 1988), p. 107 (with ill.).
J. Hamburger, The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300 (New Haven (Conn.), 1990), p. 49, fig. 111.
H. van Os, The Art of Devotion in the Late Middle Ages in Europe, 1300-1500, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1994, pp. 25-26, no. and pl. 6.
H. van Os, Een engel in de koffer: Willem Neutelings en zijn verzameling (Baarn, 1996), p. 26, fig. 31.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 9.
P. Williamson, 'Gothic Ivories in Detroit and Baltimore', in Apollo 145 (March 1997), pp. 48-50 (p. 49, fig. 2).
P. Barnet and N. Wu, The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture, (New York, 2005), no. 47, p. 82, ill.
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