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.

Repository Institution
www.stiftungfriedenstein.de

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Gotha, Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein (before WWII)

Elfenbein Nr. 4 (lost)

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 72mm
Width: 118mm (open)

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Rounded trefoils in the spandrels.

Däberitz, Bajorat and Wilfroth 1997: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (mouths and eyes).

Provenance
Documented in the Herzogliches Museum zu Gotha in 1890. Lost during WWII.

Bibliography
C. Aldenhoven, Katalog der Herzoglichen Gemäldegalerie (Herzogliches Museum zu Gotha)(Gotha, 1890), Elfenbein Nr. 4.
U. Däberitz, I. Bajorat, R. Wilfroth, Verlustdokumentation der Gothaer Kunstsammlungen, I: Die Kunsthandwerklichen Sammlungen (Gotha, 1997), no. 2.

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