Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Back)

Height: 168mm
Width: 191mm (open); 94mm (closed)
Depth: 12mm (open); 21mm (closed)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin; Virgin holding a flower.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the sun and moon.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern France, c. 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Chamfered outer edges.
Cutting of the entry in the Keele Hall sale catalogue. Label: '2980' with, handwritten in pencil 'P.M. 1518'.

Provenance
Keele Hall, Staffordshire: sale, Keele Hall Heirlooms, July 1902 (?), lot 754. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan wing: a brief guide to the art of the Renaissance, mediaeval and earlier periods (New York, 1918), p. 16.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 199, 203, 222; II, no. 404.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), 2nd ed., p. 108, ill, fig. 49.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 148, p. 189.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 148.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 69.
Danielle Gaborit-Chopin, 'Documents et œuvres d'art: remarques sur quelques ivoires gothiques français', Cahiers Archeologiques, vol. 55, 2014, p. 128, pl. 12-13.

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