Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; rugged cross; sun and moon; titulus.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century (left wing).
Randall 1993: French (Paris), early 14th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003: French (Paris), c. 1300-1320.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (traces of flower patterns in the background, hair, beards, along the hems, gable), green? (lining of the garments), red (gable).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: lower right corner.

Comments
The left wing of this diptych is now in the Musée du Louvre (OA 11097).

Provenance
Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, County Argyll, Scotland. Collection of Baron Malcolm of Poltalloch. Collection of Col. Edward Donald Malcolm: sold, Christie's, London, 1 May 1913, lot 19. Bought from Raphael Stora, New York, in 1950 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.

Bibliography
Catalogue of Bronzes and Ivories, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1879, no. tbc.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 414 (left wing); III, pl. LXXXVI.
R. Riefstahl, 'Medieval Art', in Toledo Museum News, n.s. 7, no. 1 (1964), p. 15.
'Medieval Art at Toledo: A Selection', in Apollo 86, no. 70 (1967), p. 440, fig. 11.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Nouvelles acquisitions du département des objets d'art, 1985-1989 (Paris, 1990), no. 20, pp. 52-55.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 52.
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. 23.
L'art au temps des rois maudits: Philippe le Bel et ses fils (1285-1328), exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1998, no. 111.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), pp. 342-344.

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