Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles; angels praying.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd golding bagpipes; musician shepherd holding a shawm; sheep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Pentecost; dove of the Holy Spirit; apostles; angels praying.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; horses.
Pinnacles.

Kube 1925: France, 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later hinges

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of each panel. Discolouration on the reverse.

Provenance
Collection of Mikhail Petrovich Botkin (b. 1839, d. 1914), Saint Petersburg, since 1897; acquired by the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Ukazatel' vystavki starinnykh khudozhestvennykh predmetov i kartin v pol'zu uchrezhdenii, sostoiashchikh pod pokrovitel'stvom ee i. v. vel. kniagini Marii Pavlovny (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 13, p. 59.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 75.
Rzemioslo artystyczne zachodniej europy od XI do XVI wieku, ze zbiorów panstwowego ermitazu w Sank Petersburgu [Western European artistic handicrafts from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries], exhibition catalogue, Malbork, The Malbork Castle Museum, 1994, no. 45, fig. 28.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (St Peterburg, 2014), no. 94.

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