Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Top)

Height: 208mm
Width: 210mm (open); 105mm (closed)
Depth: 12mm (open); 25mm (closed)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm (broken) and saint Peter holding the key.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Register 3: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost; tongues of fire; apostles including saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm and saint Peter holding the key.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb.
Register 3: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses.

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Paris 1981: Paris, last third of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff, Paris: sold, Drouot, Paris, 8 April 1861, lot 253; purchased by Malinet. Collection of Auguste Dutuit, Paris: Dutuit bequest to the Museum in 1902.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 327.
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1767.
J. Labarte, Histoire des arts industriels au Moyen Âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance (Paris, 1872-75), pl. XIX.
Les Arts 11 (December 1902), pp. 1-46 (fig. on p. 42).
G. Cain, La Collection Dutuit au Petit-Palais des Champs-Élysées (Paris, 1903), I, p. 29, III, reproduction.
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel (Paris, 1906), II, p. 487.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 55.
H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit. Notice Historique sur les Frères Dutuit (Paris, 1907), no. 1277.
La Collection Dutuit: 100 planches reproduisant les principales oeuvres d'art exposées au Petit Palais des Champs-Élysées [1908], pl. XXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 293; II, no. 808; III, pl. CXXXIX.
Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit, précédé d'une notice sur les frères Dutuit (Paris, 1925), no. 1334.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 162.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des objets d'art, 1985-1989 (Paris, 1990), fig. 24c.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), fig. 201a.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 87, in relation to no. 14.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 579, in relation to no. 170.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 186.

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