Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 4 registers, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Back)

Wing, left
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels crowning the Virgin; angels swinging censers; musician angels (psaltery; string instrument).
Register 2: Resurrection; angels in prayer; three soldiers asleep. Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; demons.
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; hanging lamp.
Register 4: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies. Nativity.; musician shepherds holding bagpipes; sheep.
Wing, right
Register 1: in a diamond shape, Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); dove coming out of his mouth; four Symbols of the Evangelists with scrolls in the spandrels (angel; eagle; lion; calf). Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse; Virgo lactans); two angels crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Ascension; Virgin surrounded by the apostles including saint Peter holding the key and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 3: 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.
Register 4: saint Michael and the devil; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide. Martyrdom of saint Thomas Becket; swords; soldiers in armour; altar; chalice; cross.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: South German, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Detroit 1997 and Museum's opinion 2011: German (Cologne), c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of four missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat with parallel scoring. Traces of glued cardboard. Old labels with inscription 'S 62' and stamped.

Provenance
Demotte Inc., art dealer, Paris and New York. Brimo de Laroussilhe, art dealer, Paris. L. Daguerre, Paris. Paula de Königsberg, Buenos Aires and New York. Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne; acquired in 1970 for The Cloisters Collection.

Bibliography
The Art News: An International Pictorial Newspaper of Art, New York, May 1, 1926, vol. XXIV, no. 30, p. 1, b/w ill.
Art Bulletin of the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, II (1929), p. 5.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 38, fig. 36.
Exposición de Obras Maestras Colección Paula de Königsberg, Buenos Aires, 1945, no. 273, p. 38, pl. CXLVI.
Exposición de Obras de Arte Europeo (Siglo XII al XIX), Pertenecientes a la Colección Paula de Königsberg, Montevideo, 1945, no. 97, p. 29, pl. LXXVIII.
Exposición de Obras Maestras Siglos XII al XVII Colección Paula de Königsberg, exhibition catalogue, Buenos Aires, 1951, no. 104, p. 24, pl. LVI.
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 28.
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.62.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, exhibition catalogue, Luzern and Zurich, 1964, no. 725, p. 78, ill. pl. 71.
P. Lasko, 'A Notable Private Collection', in Apollo (June 1964), p. 473.
P. Bloch, 'Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Ausstellung im Kunsthaus Zürich vom 7. Juni bis 1. September', in Kunstchronik 17 (1964), pp. 263-267, ill. 6a, p. 680.
P. Bloch et al., 'Mittelalterliche Kunst der Sammlung Kofler-Truniger, Luzern', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 31 (1965), pp. 21-22.
Weltkunst aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. May, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Kunsthalle, 1968, no. D 11.
Profil du Metropolitan Museum of Art New York de Ramsès à Picasso, exhibition catalogue, Bordeaux, 1981, pp. 64-65, no. 63.
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. 42.
P. Barnet and N. Wu, The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (New York, 2005), no. 55, pp. 92-93.

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