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

Wing, left
Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist crying; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Wing, right
Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).

Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, c. 1330-1340.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges (restored).

Provenance
Von Sallet collection: acquired in 1898, gift of Judge R. Lessing to the Museum.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 110, 111, pl. XXI.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), pp. 46-47, pl. 47.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 209; II, no. 504.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 45.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 579, in relation to no. 170.

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