Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two angels holding candlesticks. Angels holding navettes and swinging censers in the spandrels.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Angels crying in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Possibly collection of Anton Josef Essingh (b. 1787, d. 1864), Cologne: his sale, Heberle, Cologne, 18 September 1865, lot 869 (?). Collection of Prof. Dr. Richard von Schnitzler (no. 153, pl. LXX in his catalogue); inherited by R. Abegg, Cologne; purchased by the museum on 22 November 1970 thanks to funds of Pro Arte Medii Aevi (Friends of the Museum), Cologne.

Bibliography
N. Netzer, V. Reinburg, Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum in Cologne, exhibition catalogue, Chestnut Hill, Boston College, McMullen Museum of Art, 2000, no. 23, pl. IX.
Das Mittelalter in 111 Meisterwerken, ed. by H. Westermann-Angerhausen and D. Täube, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Museum Schnütgen, 2003, p. 153.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.