Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 3 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

Unknown location

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Height: 205mm
Width: 223mm

Wing, left
Register 1: God the Father holding Christ Child; angels swinging censers; angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Assumption; Virgin in a mandorla borne to Heaven by angels (bodily Assumption); angels swinging censers; angels holding candlesticks.
Register 3: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two kneeling angels swinging censers; two angels holding candelsticks.
Register 2: Last Judgement (Christ in Glory); angels holding Instruments of the Passion (cross; spear; nails); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Register 3: Resurrection of the Dead; souls rising from their tombs; souls including a bishop with mitre; saint Michael holding scales, weighing the souls; souls and demons; angels blowing trumpets.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (throne, haloes; hair; along the hems, etc.), brown (demons; hair), red and blue (architectural details; angels' wings), orange (clothes), grey (hair).

Reverse
Illegible ink inscriptions on the reverse of each panel.

Provenance
Albrecht Neuhaus Kunsthandel, Würzburg, 1986 (Kunst und Antiquitäten, III, May 1986, pp. 106-107). Private collection, Switzerland; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 36.

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