Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3549

Ivory

Height: 105 mm
Width: 162 mm
Depth: 7 mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist; crowd of onlookers including soldiers; shield decorated with a star; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (brown).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Left wing broken around the lower hinge. Stained. Small cracks.

Provenance
Acquired in 1964 through the Purchasing Commission of the Experts of the State Hermitage Museum.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 123.

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