Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Figure of the Church (Ecclesia).
Register 2: unidentified female saint with martyr's palm.
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; cruciform halo.
Register 2: Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Register 1: Figure of Synagogue (Synagoga).
Register 2: unidentified female saint with martyr's palm.
Tracery. Pinnacles. Pierced rounded trefoils. Rose windows.

Weales, Maes, et al.: France (Dijon), c. 1300.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two modern hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Provenance
Collection of Edmund Waterton (in 1924).

Bibliography
W. H. J. Weales, J. Maes, et al., Instrumenta Ecclesiastica. Choix d’objets d’art religieux du moyen-âge et de la renaissance exposés à Malines en Septembre 1864. 57 planches photolithographiées par Simonau et Toovey ... (Brussels, 1866), no. 5.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. I. L'atelier du diptyque du trésor de Soissons', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 34 (1905), pp. 362-379 (p. 373).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 85; II, no. 45; III, pl. XIX.

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