Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (plaque ajourée), 4 registers, 3 ogee arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Height: 175mm (without frame)182mm (with frame)
Width: 87mm (without frame) 97mm (with frame)
Depth: 8mm (with frame)
Weight: 266.3g (including metal frame)

From lower to upper register, left to right:
Register 1 (bottom): Entry into Jerusalem. Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast. Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; head of God the Father in clouds.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; lantern; soldiers. Christ before Pilate. Flagellation.
Register 3: Carrying of the Cross; man holding nails and a hammer. Crucifixion; Virgin and Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers. Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man on a ladder, holding pincers.
Register 4 (top): Entombment with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb; two soldiers asleep. Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Dalton 1909: North French or Flemish, 14th century or 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: Flemish, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Egbert 1929: Italy (under German influence), early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Flemish, 15th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Covered by a metal frame.

Object Condition
Restored: upper left corner broken and re-affixed.
Missing: central figure of Christ in the Flagellation and Christ on the ass in the Entry into Jerusalem (modern replacements).

Provenance
William Maskell collection (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 315, pl. LXX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 324, 326; II, no. 873.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 201-202, fig. 63].

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