Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Stafski 1965: Northern France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Nuremberg 2000: France (Paris?), c. 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (robes).

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Light scratches. Remains of a red wax seal.

Object Condition
Missing: nose of Longinus.
Edges chipped in places.

Provenance
Bought in 1881 from a Nuremberg art dealer.

Bibliography
H. Bösch, Katalog der im germanischen Museum befindlichen Originalskulpturen (Nuremberg, 1890), no. 49.
S. von Pückler-Limpurg, Nurnberger Bildnerkunst um die Wende des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts (Strasbourg, 1904), p. 19.
W. Josephi, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg. Die Werke plastischer Kunst (Nuremberg, 1910), no. 630/631, pl. LXIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 213; II, no. 482.
H. Stafski, Kataloge des Germanischen Nationaslmuseums Nürnberg. Die mittelalterlichen Bildwerke, Pt. 1. Die Bildwerke in Stein, Holz, Ton und Elfenbein bis um 1450 (Nuremberg, 1965), pp. 250-251, no. 229.
F. M. Kammel, 'Vom Rhein an die Pegnitz.[…]', in Die Heiligen Drei Könige. Spätgotische Skulpturen aus dem Germanischen Nationalmuseum in Nürnberg (Nuremberg, 1999), pp. 3-13.
Spiegel der Seligkeit: Privates Bild und Frömmigkeit im Spätmittelalter, ed. by G. U. Großmann, exhibition catalogue, Nuremberg, 2000, pp. 267-277, no. 93 (A. Curtius).

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