Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, holding a martyr's palm and a wheel; standing Virgin and Child; saint Margaret emerging from the dragon.
Wing, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.

Vöge 1900: French, 14th century.
Volbach 1923 and Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Darmstadt and Munich 1999: Paris, c. 1320-1330.
Museum's opinion 2010: Rhineland, c. 1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two original hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (crowns; along the hems; hair; architectural details; decorative pattern on the background).

Provenance
Acquired in 1841 in Cologne for the Kunstkammer.

Bibliography
W. Vöge, Die Königlichen Museen zu Berlin. Beschreibung der Bildwerke der christlichen Epochen. Zweite Auflage. Elfenbeinwerke (Berlin, 1900), no. 100, 101, pl. XXXI.
W. F. Volbach, Die Bildwerke des Deutschen Museums, Die Elfenbeinbildwerke (Berlin, 1923), p. 41, pl. 47.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 217, 220; II, no. 576.
Meisterwerke aus Elfenbein der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, exhibition catalogue, Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum and Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1999, no. 43.

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