Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 3: Entry into Jerusalem.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost (without the Virgin); dove of the Holy Spirit.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane).
Register 3: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.

Bertaux 1912: France, end of the 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1320-1340.

Attribution
Atelier of the Cracow casket (Gaborit-Chopin 2003)

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (modern).

Reverse
Labelled: '1686', '66' [or 'çç'], '118 / trate / Saate / etoit', '36'.

Object Condition
Ivory cracked, with open cracks. Chip on the hand of Christ in the Last Supper scene. Repairs around the hinges, especially in the right wing, from the middle to lower part of the wing.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 264. Collection of Édouard Chappey: sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit , 5-7 June 1907, lot 1686

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 136 (ill.).
T. Destève, 'La Collection de M. Claudius Côte', in Les Arts, 1908, pp. 23-24, fig. 10.
E. Bertaux, Quelques pièces de la collection Claudius Côte (Lyon, 1912), plate XV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 295; II, no. 818.
Vingt ans d'acquisitions au musée du Louvre, 1947-1967, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1967-1968, no. 267.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 299 (cited).
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 161.

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