Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 442

Ivory

Height: 130mm
Width: 107mm

Register 1: Raising of Lazarus; Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.

Koechlin Number: 0801

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, end of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the right side (repaired).

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Label with inscription: '216'.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges (repaired).

Provenance
Collection of Alexandre Du Sommerard: acquired for the museum in 1843.

Bibliography
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1076.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 801.

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