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

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.

Graesse 1879: Italian or French workshop, 13th – 14th century.
Sponsel 1921: 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of 14th century.
Museum’s opinion 2013: France (Paris ?), mid- 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Incised inscriptions: ‘MARIA’ at the top and ‘1471’ at the bottom of the left wing.

Comments
An 1837 description indicates that the diptych used to be gilded.

Provenance
Collection of Herrn von Fluth; purchased by the Grünes Gewölbe Museum in 1837 (recorded as an addendum in the 1819 inventory of the Ivory Room (p. 239, no. 484), as having been purchased from him on 28 February 1837).

Bibliography
J. G. T. Graesse, Beschreibender Catalog des k. Grünen Gewölbes, zu Dresden (Dresden, 1879), p. 31
J. and A. Erbstein, Das Königliche Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1884), p. 19, no. 61.
J. L. Sponsel, Führer durch das Grüne Gewölbe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1921), p. 20.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212; II, no. 474.

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