Inv. A.1902.215.4
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles. Pentecost; Trinity; dove of the Holy Spirit; tongues of fire.Angels holding scrolls and musician angels in the spandrels (psaltery; wind instruments; string instruments).
Register 2: Deposition; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).Angels holding scrolls and musician angels in the spandrels (string instruments; harp).
Twisted columns; pierced trefoils; medallions enclosing quatrefoils; tracery.
Labarte 1847: Italian, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, early 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Northern French or Northern Italian (Milan?), late 14th-early 15th century or early 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat; the two figures at the top right of the Deposition scene are a later replacement.
Object Condition
The vertical strips on the sides have been restored.
Comments
This panel belongs to the same ensemble as three other ones in Edinburgh (Inv. A.1902.215.1-3), some now at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (366-1871), an openwork panel of the Nativity formerly in the Trivulzio collection in Milan (see Koechlin 1924), and an openwork panel in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (32.100.207).
Provenance
Collection of Debruge Duménil (in 1847). Collection of George Field: his sale, Christie's, 12 June 1893, lot 168. Collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael: his sale, Christie's, 4 may 1902, lot 12 (Durlacher).
Bibliography
J. Labarte, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge-Duménil (Paris, 1847), no. 155.
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 197.
Catalogue of Bronzes and Ivories, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1879, no. 84.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 322, 326, 338; II, no. 858; III, pl. CLIV.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 124-126).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 171.
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