Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.

Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, end of the 13th century.
Kondakov 1891: 13th century.
Kube 1921: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (along the hems; crown; architectural details), red (decoration in the spandrels; architectural details), blue (lining of garments), green (dot patterns for the grass).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: candlestick held by the maid in the Presentation partly broken.

Provenance
Said by Darcel and Basilewski to have come from the collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889), but does not feature in the 1861 Soltykoff sale catalogue. Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, since 1865; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 329.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 102.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 407.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 33, p. 154.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 9.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 173, 176; II, no. 302.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 85.
Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Eremitage Leningrad, exhibition catalogue, Berlin-Köpenick, Kunstgewerbemuseum, 1974, no. 82.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 96.

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