Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquette; frise d'arcatures) and panel, 1 register, 1 arch across: pieces reused to form a pax (baiser de paix) (Front, detail)

Height: 160mm (with frame); 39mm (upper panel); 70mm (lower panel)
Width: 105mm (with frame); 25mm (upper panel); 53mm (lower panel)

Main panel:
Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Smaller panel:
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges (main panel).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (architectural details, hair, crowns, along the hems, candlesticks, star), red (lips), black (eyes), brown (background).

Reverse
The back of the larger panel is partly visible and has an incised Gothic letter 'M'.
Label with inscription: '89'. Blue and white label with inscription: '887'.

Object Condition
Cracks in the wooden frame.

Comments
Two ivory panels set in a 16th-century wooden architectural frame; inscription 'IAN V Delft A[nn]o 1562' and traces of polychromy and gilding on the frame (Jülich 2007).

Provenance
Collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum.

Bibliography
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. 39.

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