Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin (Vierge glorieuse); two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges. Traces of hinges on the outer edges of each wing, possibly where the original hinges were.

Provenance
Daguerre collection, Paris. Seligmann collection: sale, Paris, 16 March 1914, lot 42. Collection of Emil Delmár (b. 1876, d. 1959), Budapest (until 1938), on loan to the Bern Kunstmuseum from 1938; Delmár collection moved to New York (from 1947); sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1956, lot 101. Galerie Bresset, Paris. Collection of Robert Courbier, Marseille: his sale, Paris, Drouot, Robert and Baille, 8 October 2010, lot 38.

Bibliography
Kunst und Kunstgewerbe, exhibition catalogue, Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1939, no. 4.

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