Inv. 71.195
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat, staff and satchel; satchel decorated with a scallop shell.
Register 2: saint Laurence holding a gridiron; saint Peter holding a key; saint Paul holding a sword; saint Stephen; saint Anthony abbot standing in flames (with tau-headed staff); saint Isidore with a spade or saint Fiacre as a monk holding a book and spade.
Diapered background with lozenges enclosing a quatrefoil; pinnacles; pointed trefoils.
Westwood 1876: France(?), 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France or Flanders, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with inscription: 'RIGHT LEAF OF A DIPTYCH/ IVORY GOTHIC/ FRENCH LATE 14TH CENTURY'.
Object Condition
Missing: left corner (repaired).
Broken around the lower hinge and along the upper left edge (repaired).
Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century and one of these casts is now Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 237c (see CAST image).
Provenance
Collection of A. J. B. Beresford Hope, Esq. (b. 1820, d. 1887)(in 1876). Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: sold Paris, 11 May 1908, lot 490 (purchased by Seligmann). Bought by Henry Walters in 1912 from Jacques Seligmann in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 497 ('55.42).
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