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

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

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

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

Repository Institution
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Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

CA T 329

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 170mm
Width: 145mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers, kneeling on the sides of the bench.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.

Koechlin Number: 0333

Koechlin 1924: France, late 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 329.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 174, 176; II, no. 333.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 33.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 13.

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