Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

Wing, left
Crucifixion, with jet of blood striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Wing, right
Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell.
Border of dentils; pointed trefoils in spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Liebgott 1985: German or Scandinavian replica of Parisian work, after 1300.
Museum's opinion 2013: Germany or Scandinavia, after 1300.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (teeth of the Mouth of Hell), red (John's head and teeth of the Mouth of Hell).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Said to have been washed ashore near Stege on the island of Møn. Mailed to the Nationalmuseet (Museum for nordiske Oldsager) in 1829 by Robsham, sexton in Stege, on the island of Møn.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 209; II, no. 505.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 31.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), pp. 61-62, fig. 58.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 592-3, in relation to no. 178.

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