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

Wing, left
Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; Longinus with spear kneeling in prayer; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; rugged cross.
Pinnacles. Border of dentils.

Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century (?).
Stuttmann 1966 and Cologne 1982: French, 14th century.
Detroit 1997: German, c. 1350.
Museum's opinion 2013: French, 1st half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Traces of a metal frame along all edges.

Provenance
Collection of Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (b. 1811, d. 1886), Hannover (no. 463); acquired by the city of Hannover in 1887.

Bibliography
Führer durch das Kestner-Museum, Part 2: Mittelalter und Neuzeit, ed. by C. Schuchhardt (Hannover, 1904), p. 56, no. 19.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 212, 221, II, no. 489.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I : Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), no. 119, fig. 190.
Die Heiligen Drei Könige: Darstellung und Verehrung: Katalog zur Ausstellung des Wallraf-Richartz-Museums in der Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 1 December 1982-30 January 1983, no. 7.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, fig. 42b.

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