Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, band of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Paris, Musée du Louvre

OA 7274

Ivory

Height: 164mm
Width: 117mm
Depth: 15mm

Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Virgin praying; saint John the Evangelist. Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; demons.
Register 2: Flagellation. Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist; Longinus standing in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.

Koechlin Number: 0259

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris (?), c. 1290-1310.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Brown stains.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked.
Missing: part of the pole held by Christ in the Harrowing of Hell.
Modern hole for hanging.

Provenance
Félix Doistau collection, Paris; gift of F. Doistau, 1919.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques diptyques d'ivoire gothiques français. Les diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, July-September 1918, pp. 225-246.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 154 note 2, p. 157 note 1, II, no. 259.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 114.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 227, in relation to no. 70.

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