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. Apostles. saints.

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Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 107mm
Width: 69mm

Wing, left
Register 1: saint Mary Magdalene with ointment pot; saint Barbara with tower and martyr's palm; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; saint Agnes with a lamb and book.
Register 2: saint Bartholomew with a flaying knife; saint Peter holding a key; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint Paul holding a sword; unidentified apostle (possibly saint Judas with a spear).
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; soldier with a shield with a face.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; horses.
Incised trefoils.

Paris 1900: 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Karl Thewalt, Cologne (at least 1900-1903): his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 4-14 November 1903, lot 589, pl. 10. Collection of Prof. Robert Forrer, Strasbourg (no. 19). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Petit Palais, 1900, no. 186.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.79, p. 26.

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