Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Detail (wing, right))

Wing, left
Register 1: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep; Holy Women holding ointment pots.
Register 2: Nativity (Virgo lactans); annunciation to the shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (spear; cross); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling; souls rising from their tombs.
Register 2: Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Germany (Rhineland) or Flanders, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Édouard Corroyer, Paris (d. 1904)(in 1900); gift of Mrs Édouard Corroyer to the Museum in 1905.

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 107 (Corroyer collection).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 326.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 218.

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