Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Raising of Lazarus; Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table; Judas reaching out for fish.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; soldiers in armour; lantern; death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles; cruciform halo.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; trees.
Register 3: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: French (Paris?), 1365-1390.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 106. Julius Campe collection, Hamburg. Emile Baboin collection, Lyon. Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1950 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, n. 71 (E. Molinier).
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 125.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 49).
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 19.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 286, 291, II, no. 792.
R. Riefstahl, 'Medieval Art', in Toledo Museum News, n.s. 7, no. 1 (1964), p. 155.
W. D. Wixom, Treasures of Medieval France, exhibition catalogue, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, no. V 24.
'Medieval Art at Toledo: A Selection', in Apollo 86, no. 70 (1967), p. 440, fig. 7.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 103.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, no. 32, pp. 175-176.
Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practices in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 2001, no. 22, pp. 3, 5, fig. 1.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 101.

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