Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Wing, left)

Diptych, 3 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Wing, left)

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Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Passion.

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

Cl. 440

Ivory;metal (later hinges and frame)

Height: 177mm; 182mm (with frame)
Width: 119mm (each); 124mm (with frame)

Wing, left
Register 1: Resurrection; three soldiers asleep; two angels kneeling on the tomb; Ascension.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; Death of Judas (Judas hanging); Flagellation.
Register 3: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; Nativity (Virgo lactans) and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost. Coronation of the Virgin; two seated angels swinging censers; angel crowning the Virgin.
Register 2: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; male kneeling figure with spear (possibly Longinus); Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0811

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Avignon 1997 and Museum's opinion 2010: 2nd quarter of 14th century, France.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (background).

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

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

Bibliography
A. Du Sommerard, Les Arts du Moyen Âge (Paris, 1838-46), album: 2th series, pl. XX.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1074.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 294; II, no. 811.
Histoires tissées, exhibition catalogue, Avignon, Palais des Papes, 1997, no. 41.

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