Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers (Wing, right, back)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Pilate washing his hands. Flagellation; whips.
Register 3: Temptation of Judas; Judas receiving the reward; purse; man holding a pair of gloves.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's arm; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint John the Evangelist; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; man holding a club; man holding a hammer.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); soldier holding a lantern. Death of Judas (Judas hanging).

Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, 13th century.
Kondakov 1891: France, 13th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three broken hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (decorated background with dots, haloes, along the hems; hair and beards; moon and sun, etc.), green (tree; spear; lining of garments), red (hats; shoes; stockings; blood).
A crack at the back of the left wing has been decorated with painted foliage.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
A crack at the back of the left wing has been decorated with foliage.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, from c. 1867; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 319.
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1760.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 99.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 64, p. 158.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 9.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 152; II, no. 242.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 71.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 87.

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