Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, with quatrefoils (quatre-feuilles) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies.
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.
Beaded border on 3 sides. Trefoils in the spandrels.

Von Philippowich 1961: France, c. 1360.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360.
Randall 1993: 19th century copy.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
One modern hinge.

Comments
According to Randall (1993), this diptych is a modern copy of a diptych whose left wing is now in the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, and the right wing was in the private collection in London in 2010.

Provenance
Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

Bibliography
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), pp. 66 and 68, fig. 53.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.69, p. 24.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 95 (in relation to no. 118).

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