Gothic Ivories Project | Trefoil-top diptych, 3 registers (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden; Betrayal (Taking of Christ).
Register 3: Carrying of the Cross; Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Wing, right
Register 1: Resurrection with four soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Christ before Pilate; Flagellation.
Register 3: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Entombment.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964 and Lowden 2013: North Italian, c. 1300.
Museum's opinion 2008: North Italian, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Unidentified coats of arms (16th century?).

Provenance
In Würzburg c. 1879. A. K. Macomber collection, Paris. Henri Daguerre collection, Paris. Ars Antiqua, Inc., New York. Joseph Brummer Collection, New York: his sale, New York, 11-14 May 1949, lot 698. Theodor Fischer Collection. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Blumka Gallery and Julius Böhler (Collecting Treasures of the Past. The Kofler-Truniger Collection and Other Important Early Works of Art, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-11 February 2000, no. 19); Thomson Collection, Toronto (acquired, 3 February 2000); since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. H. von Hefner-Alteneck, Trachten, Kunstwerke und Gerätschaften (Frankfurt am Main, 1879-1889), III, p. 4, pl. 147.
Tapisserien aus der Kathedrale in Angers, exhibition catalogue, Basel, Kunsthalle, 1951, no. 18.
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1964, no. 896.
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.58.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 1.4, p. 133.

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