Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Grünes Gewölbe

Inv. II 55/II 58

Brass (hinges);ivory

Height: 91mm
Width: 61mm (one wing)

Wing, left
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; standing Virgin and Child; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; crown.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; Virgin and one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker; rugged cross.
Pointed trefoils

Koechlin Number: 0582

Graesse 1879: 14th century.
Erbstein 1884: 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century or beginning of 15th century.
Museum’s opinion 2013: Germany (Rhineland or Meuse valley), 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Prof. Steinla: purchased by the Grünes Gewölbe Museum in 1857 (recorded as an addendum in the 1819 inventory of the Ivory Room, p. 240, no. 491).

Bibliography
J. G. T. Graesse, Beschreibender Catalog des k. Grünen Gewölbes, zu Dresden (Dresden, 1879), p. 32.
J. and A. Erbstein, Das Königliche Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1884), p. 18, no. 55/58.
J. L. Sponsel, Führer durch das Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1921), p. 20.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 217, 220, 221; II, no. 582.

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