Register 1: Temptation of Judas; Judas receiving the reward; Arrest of Christ.
Register 2: Flagellation; Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ.
Register 3: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel and three soldiers asleep.
Border of dentils.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st half of the 14th century (?).
Randall 1993: North Italian, 1st quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: green (trees).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: parts of the lower border have been gnawed by mice.
Other damage seems to indicate the piece was buried at one stage.
Comments
The left wing is 42.139 also at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Provenance
Said to have come from the cathedral treasury of Laon. Manzi collection, Paris: sold, at the Manzi-Joyant sale, Paris, 15-16 December 1919, lot 45. Jacques Seligmann and Fils, Paris. Collection of Maurice Sulzbach, Paris (by 1924). Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York. Bought by Robert H. Tannahill, 23 February 1926; given by him to the Institute in 1942.
Bibliography
A. Alexandre, 'La Collection Manzi', in Les Arts (1919), no. 177, p. 21.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 265bis.
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 54.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies, 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 189, fig. 40].
The Waning of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, Pomona College, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA, 4 April- 2 May 1965, no. 27
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, p. 242, fig. 1.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 209.
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