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

Wing, left
Crucifixion; Virgin with one of the Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlooker.
Wing, right
Saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); standing Virgin and Child; saint James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff.
Pointed trefoils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges decorated with heads. Traces of two earlier missing hinges on the right side.

Object Condition
Crack in the lower left corner of the right wing and in the lower right corner of the left wing.

Comments
The two panels seem to have been swapped, and the Crucifixion would originally have been on the right wing.

Provenance
Collection of Baron von Hüpsch (b. 1730, d. 1805), Cologne; acquired in 1805 by the Museum; stolen in 1945 from the castle of Rauhenzell im Allgäu where the collections of the museum had been deposited.

Bibliography
T. Jülich, Die mittelalterlichen Elfenbeinarbeiten des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt, exhibition catalogue, Regensburg, 2007, no. V8.

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