Gothic Ivories Project | Wings, right and left (fragments of a triptych), 2 registers, 1 arch across (Back)

Wing, right
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross.
Register 2: Flagellation.
Wing, left
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist in prayer.
Register 2: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).

Lowden 2008: Italy, N. or France, S. (?), 14th century, c. 1300 (?).
Museum's opinion 2008: Italy, N. or France, S., 14th century, c. 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Possibly originally ring hinges, as no sign of the usual tenon hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Originally painted and gilded compositions on the back. From left to right and upwards: Christ rising from the Tomb, Maries at the Tomb, Harrowing of Hell, Noli me tangere, and possibly two kneeling angels in prayer.

Reverse
Originally painted and gilded compositions on the back. From left to right and upwards: Christ rising from the Tomb, Maries at the Tomb, Harrowing of Hell, Noli me tangere, and possibly two kneeling angels in prayer.

Object Condition
Missing: centre panel.

Comments
The missing central panel may have been a single large ivory block (would have been 330 x 152 mm).

Provenance
Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Sotheby's, London, 18 March 1976, lot 18, through Hermann Baer, London; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 33.

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