Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 4 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin and Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Flagellation; Carrying of the Cross.
Register 3: Judas receives the reward; Betrayal (Taking of Christ).
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 3: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; saint John the Baptist stands beside Christ; souls thrown into the mouth of Hell.

Institution's opinion 2015 (Brigitte Roux): possibly work of an English carver active in Spain, 1st quarter of the 14th century (see Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Inv. 1950.51.Dv.6 for comparison).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy (original and later): blue and red (architectural details; inside garments) and gold (cross, garments, traces of dot patterns on the background; painted decoration on the tomb, with quatrefoils and arches), pink (flesh, definitely later); trace of stripes on the executioners' breeches in the Flagellation scene.
See unpublished condition report by Juliette Levy-Hinstin, July 2013.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges. Deep vertical crack in the upper left part of the left wing (recently repaired).

Provenance
In a family from the Breton nobility since the 18th century. Drouot, Paris, 21 January 2011, lot 18: acquired at this sale by the Gandur Foundation.

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