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. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 126mm
Width: 107 mm (each)

Wing, left
The Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels; pinnacles; rounded trefoils in the gables.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France (?), c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive later gilding and polychromy, including blue.

Provenance
Baron M. von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.102, p. 30.

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