Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 96 mm
Width: 68.5 mm

Wing, left
Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross.
Four Symbols of the Evangelists with scrolls in the spandrels: angel of saint Matthew, eagle of saint John the Evangelist; lion of saint Mark and ox of saint Luke.
Wing, right
Christ in Glory with Resurrection of the Dead; Christ displaying his wounds; souls rising from their tombs; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails, spear; crown of thorns); Virgin Mary and beardless saint John the Baptist kneeling; two angels swinging censers in the spandrels; two more angels in the lower spandrels.
In a quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond. Pointed trefoils.

Lowden 2013: Northern France, c. 1325-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Comments
So far, this piece is only known through a cast made in the mid 19th century. The photograph on this page is of the cast now in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art (no. 305).

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 64-66, fig. 36, in relation to no. 7.

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