Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 382

Ivory

Height: 138mm
Width: 88mm

Register 1: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane). Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Border of dentils. Pilasters. Pinnacles.

Koechlin Number: 0373

Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges on the right side (repaired).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
The right wing is now Avori 85 in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 180, 191, 197, 294; II, no. 373.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 269.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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