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

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Religious. Passion.

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Saint Petersburg, The State Hermitage Museum

Inv. F 3574

Metal (hinges);ivory

Height: 299 mm
Width: 236 mm (open)
Depth: 10 mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker holding a scroll.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); tomb decorated with blind arches.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint John the Eavangelist.
Register 2: kneeling saint Mary Magdalene, part of Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene), merged with Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell.

Kryzhanovskaya 2014: Germany (?), 2nd half of the 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold, brown.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Transferred from the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh) to the Hermitage in 1933.

Bibliography
M. Kryzhanovskaya, 'Kostianaia plastinka 'Imperator so svitoi' i rodstvennye ei pamiatniki', in Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha Vol. 42 (Saint Petersburg, 2008), p. 297.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 188.

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