Gothic Ivories Project | Relief (fragment of a tabernacle or altarpiece; appliqué) (Front (group))

Height: 112.7mm (left); 111.8mm (right)
Width: 59mm (left); 60.7mm (right)
Depth: 6.4mm (left); 5mm (right)
Weight: 69g (left); 52g (right)

Left: apostles including saint Peter holding the key.
Right: apostles including saint Paul holding a sword.
Part of a Betrayal scene.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy, especially in the hair.

Reverse
Uncarved. Some crosshatching; traces of glue.

Comments
Carved on thin curving panels.

Provenance
Christie's, London, 8 December 1987, lot 19 (unsold); Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Maria Baer, London, in 1988; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 35.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 58, in relation to no. 6.

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