Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

Repository Institution
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Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Angewandte Kunst

Inv. WMJ 2

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 119mm
Width: 76mm
Depth: 6mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; sun and moon. Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb; three soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist and saint Paul holding a sword. Coronation of the Virgin; musician angels (string instruments; psaltery).
Register 2: Nativity with midwife; swaddled child. Annunciation to the shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0367

Frauberger 1897: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Frankfurt 1966: Italian or French, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three broken hinges (modern).

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy (modern).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Chamfered inner edges.

Object Condition
Pieces of wood in the holes left by the missing hinges.

Provenance
Wilhelm Metzler collection, Frankfurt am Main; acquired by the Museum in 1904.

Bibliography
H. Frauberger, Die Kunstsammlung des Herrn Wilhelm Peter Metzler in Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt, 1897), pl. 23.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 186, 187, 190, 211, 294; II, no. 367.
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, February-April 1966, no. 234.

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