Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass; city.
Register 2: Last Supper with Saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table. Judas receiving the reward.
Register 3: Death of Judas (Judas hanging); Flagellation; Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; soldier holding a hammer.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1969: France.
Randall 1985: Germany (Mainz), 4th quarter of the 14th century.
Detroit 1997: Germany (Mainz), c. 1375-1400. Attributed to the Kremsmünster Master (a carver named after a diptych now in the abbey of Kremsmünster in Austria).
Attribution
Atelier of the Kremsmünster Diptych (Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Large vertical cracks in the background, especially the right part of the wing.
Comments
The right wing is now in Baltimore (Walters Art Museum, 71.156). See related object.
Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.
Bibliography
P. Dissard and J.-B. Giraud, Catalogue sommaire des musées de la ville de Lyon (Lyon: Mougin-Rusand, 1900), p. 270, no. 81.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 39, 301, 305; II, no. 836; III, pl. CL.
C. Briend, Les Objets d'Art: guide des collections. Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon (Paris, 1993), p. 23, fig. 8.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 176 and 206-207, fig. 45a, pp. 299-300.
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).
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