Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 4 registers, with ogee arches (Front, detail)

Gabled triptych, 4 registers, with ogee arches (Front, detail)

Gabled triptych, 4 registers, with ogee arches (Front, detail)

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Front, detail

Front

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Subject
Religious. Lives of Saints.

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 435 mm
Width: 290 mm

Life of saint Agnes; Martyrdom of saint Agnes
Wing, left
Register 1: angel; kneeling male figure.
Register 2: Agnes tied to the stake remains unharmed; fire; seated emperor.
Register 3: Saint Agnes before the prefect Semprenius (?); king; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lamb.
Centre panel
Register 1: Kneeling female figure. The vision of saint Agnes (?); king and queen; church (?). Kneeling king.
Register 2: unidentified scene; saint Agnes; lamb. Unidentified martyrdom scene; beheading; executioner; seated emperor.
Register 3: unidentified scene, possibly confused with Olibrius, prefect of Antioch, meets saint Margaret spinning beside her flock of sheep. Saint Agnes or saint Margaret sentenced to death (?); idols; seated emperor; king; lamb.
Wing, right
Register 1: kneeling figure; unidentified female saint.
Register 2: Saint Agnes is stabbed in the throat; soul of the martyred saint carried to heaven by two angels; lamb.
Register 3: unidentified martyrdom scene; flagellation scene; female saint, bare-chested, tied to a column; executioners; seated king.
Base
Saint Clare (?) holding an ointment pot. Saint Agnes raising the dead suitor. Saint Agnes with a lamb holding a book and a martyr's palm.
Pinnacles.

Molinier 1890: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side. Two hinges on either side in the lower part.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris (no. 66): his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 111. Collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg (sometime before 1924). Collection of Sir Julius Wernher, Bath House, London (148-36), not in the Wernher collection at Ranger's House.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 76 (E. Molinier).

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