Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Back)

Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; angel holding the sun and moon.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1360.
Santrot and Gaborit-Chopin 2011: Paris, c. 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Traces of fittings in the shape of fleur-de-lis.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges and the latch. Square hole in the angel's robe on the right. Several holes above the head of the angel to the left.

Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (from before 1913); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (from 1917 to 1981; as 17.190.286); Sotheby's, New York, 29-30 May 1981, lot 40; bought by the Krannert Art Museum in 1982 thanks to the Harlan E. Moore Charitable Trust.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 199, 219; II, no. 540.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 75.
J. Santrot and D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Le Don Seligman au musée Dobrée: un ivoire parisien du XIVe siècle', in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre (January 2011), pp. 43-55 (fig. 18, p. 52).

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