Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion. Life of the Virgin.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 105mm
Width: 62mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; sun and moon; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket.
Register 2: Flagellation with Pilate.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks; two angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Randall 1993: North French, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges.

Object Condition
Chipped borders.

Comments
Silver straps along the edges of the plaques are later additions.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London 8 December 1988, lot 28; New York, Collection of Neil F. Phillips (in 1993)(bought from Ronald Lee, London, in 1988). Christie's, New York, 28 January 1998, lot 12.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 137.

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