Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

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Ivory

Height: 71mm
Width: 95mm

Register 1: Baptism of a saint (saint Paul?); a saint in a baptismal font; a saint pouring water on the first saint's head; another saint holding the first saint's tunic.
Register 2: martyrdom of a saint (saint Paul?); prison in the background; sword.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0346

Koechlin 1924: France, half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the left side (the second one would have been in the missing upper section).

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the panel. Relief of the arches in the upper register filed down.
Baptismal font intentionally damaged.

Provenance
Paul collection, Cologne (in 1882); collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg (sometime before 1924).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 178; II, no. 346.

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