Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled centre panel (fragment of a triptych), 2 registers (colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

Repository Institution
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Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art

1929.437

Ivory

Height: 127mm
Width: 76mm
Depth: 13mm

Register 1: Crucifixion; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks.
Tracery. Pinnacles. Rose windows.

Milliken 1923: c. 1300.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (North France or Paris), 1250-1270.

Attribution
Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)

Hinges
Two missing hinges on either side.

Provenance
Bought thanks to the J. H. Wade Fund from Durlacher Brothers, London, in 1929.

Bibliography
W. M. Milliken, 'An Ivory from the Atelier of the Soissons Diptych', in Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 16 (July 1929), pp. 123-125.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 36.

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