Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Flagellation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; man holding nails.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Object Condition
Cuts and holes at the top of each panel for a later arrangement.

Provenance
Collection of Maurice Sulzbach, Paris. Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York: bought from them by Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit 12 March 1928; given by him to the Institute in 1942.

Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 61.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 68.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 127.

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