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

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

View other images of this object

Back

Front

Links

Subject
Religious. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
www.ago.net

To purchase an image
www.ago.net

Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

107366

Ivory

Height: 114.7-115.9mm
Width: 149mm (open); 73.9mm (closed)
Depth: 7.4mm
Weight: 156g

Wing, left
Register 1: Massacre of the Innocents. Flight into Egypt.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes; Virgin holding the left hand of Christ.
Border of dentils.

Museum's opinion 2008: Paris, early 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Neuilly, Hôtel des ventes, 22 June 1999, lot 116. Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1999, lot 136. Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired from Sam Fogg, London, 15 March 2000; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Image

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.

add / view
comments

email a link
to this image

add this image
to folder

save this image
to a set

Please remember to acknowledge any use of the site in publications and lectures as: 'Gothic Ivories Project at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk', followed by the date you accessed the site.