Register 1: Pentecost; dove of the Holy Spirit. Ascension with three apostles.
Register 2: Resurrection. Three soldiers asleep; sword. Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb.
Register 3: Entombment (anointing of Christ's body). Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist; the good thief.
Register 4: Judas receiving the reward. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); soldiers. Death of Judas (Judas hanging); tree.
Pierced rounded trefoils in the gables. Pinnacles.
Koechlin 1924: France, early 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, end of the 13th century.
Attribution
Follower of the Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Object Condition
Missing: two outer pinnacles.
Provenance
Paul collection (no. 558). Julius Campe collection, Hamburg. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective (Dresden, 1906), no. 1431.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 87; II, no. 57; III, pl. XXII.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.71, p. 24.
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