Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29105

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 180.5mm
Width: 78mm (closed); 157mm (open)
Depth: 10-11mm
Weight: 437g

Wing, left
Register 1: Raising of Lazarus; Martha and Mary, his sisters; onlookers blocking their nose against the dead man's smell; Lazarus, wrapped in a shroud, emerges from the tomb.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; woman holding a lantern (Hedroit?).
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Register 2: Resurrection with three soldiers asleep; two angels kneeling on the tomb.
Border of dentils.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2008: France (Paris), c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Kofler-Truniger label: 'S 99'.

Provenance
Collection of Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne. Collection of Thomas F. Flannery: his sale, Sotheby's, London, 1-2 December 1983, lot 68. Collection of Staals, Eindhoven. Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired, 10 July 1991, from Richard Camber, London; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
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.99.

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