Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (wings) and 6 arches across (wing, left; fragment), including painted panels (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Triptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (wings) and 6 arches across (wing, left; fragment), including painted panels (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Triptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (wings) and 6 arches across (wing, left; fragment), including painted panels (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of Christ. Infancy of Christ. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;wood (frame)

Wing, left
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding an apostle across the table (possibly Judas); Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane).
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; Virgin holding the swaddled child. Centre panel
Painted: apostles (tbc), unidentified male and female saints.
Centre panel
Register 1: Flagellation; Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ. Register 2: Flight into Egypt; falling of the idols; Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Border of dentils.
Painted: apostles (tbc), unidentified female saints or Visitation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body); Virgin anointing Christ's body. Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; Entry into Jerusalem.

Attribution
Unknown

Comments
This is a later arrangement: the two wings may originally have formed a diptych or been two writing tablets, while the centre panel seems to have been the left wing of a diptych.

Provenance
Collection of Consul Carl Becker, Frankfurt: sold, Cologne, 23 May 1898, lot 60, part.

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