Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (fragment of a diptych) 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych) 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses; colonnettes) (Front)

Wing, left (fragment of a diptych) 2 registers, 4 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 166mm
Width: 94mm

Register 1: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; trees. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; lantern.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding Christ; swaddled Christ; musician shepherd holding a shawm.

Koechlin Number: 0387

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. All edges chamfered.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot. Christie's, Paris, 4-5 March 2008, lot 212.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 187, 192, 294; II, no. 387.

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