Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Nativity and Annunciation to the shepherds; musician shepherd playing the bagpipes.
Musician angels in the spandrels (string instrument; psaltery).
Wing, right
Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory with his feet on a city, possibly Jerusalem); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; spear; cross; crown of thorns); Virgin Mary and saint John the Evangelist or beardless saint John the Baptist kneeling in prayer.
Angels blowing trumpets in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1330.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Peter Leven, Cologne: sale, 1858, lot 829. Collection of Anton Josef Essingh (b. 1787, d. 1864), Cologne: his sale, Heberle, 18 September 1865, lot 868. Ruhl collection (no. 189). Collection of Eugen Felix, Leipzig: his sale, Cologne, 25 October 1886, lot 315. Collection of Félix Doistau (b. 1846, d. 1936), Paris. Drouot, Paris, 19-20 December 1919, lot 217. Sotheby's, London, 15 July 1955, lot 26. Kofler-Truniger collection (in 1964).
Note: the order of the provenance has not been checked.

Bibliography
M. A. Siret, 'Collections Essingh à Cologne', in Revue de l'art chrétien 9 (October 1865), p. 518.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 205, 279, 280; II, no. 776.
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.78, p. 26.

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