Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, left)

Wing, left
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's hands; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Death of Judas (Judas hanging). Flagellation; Pilate washing his hands.
Register 3: Judas receiving the reward. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); saint Peter cuts Malchus' ear.
Wing, right
Register 1: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene). Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; demon.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross; Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer); Stephaton giving Christ vinegar.
Register 3: Christ before Pilate interspersed with Mocking of Christ.

Molinier 1890:
Sprinz 1925: France, ca. 1300.
Lowden 2008: Paris, c. 1275-1300 (?).
Museum's opinion 2008: Paris, c. 1275-1300 (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three original hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding especially along the hems of clothing and in the hair.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.Inscription (inventory number from the Hohenzollern collection): 7289, in black ink.Sotheby's label for the Hirsch collection.

Provenance
Frédéric Spitzer collection, Paris: sold, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 210. Hollenzollern collection, Sigmaringen, no. 7289. Robert Von Hirsch collection. Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from the Robert van Hirsch sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 285, via William Redford, London. Since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 319.
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 96 (E. Molinier)
H. Sprinz, Die Bildwerke der Fürstlich Hohenzollenrnschen Sammlung Sigmaringen (Stuttgart, 1925), p. 4, no. 7, pl. 5 (inv. No. 7289).
Verzeichnis der im Städelschen Kunstinstitut ausgestellten Sigmaringer Sammlungen, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt, 1928, no. 246.
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), cat. 22.

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