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Diptych, 2 registers (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello

Inv. 99 C

Ivory;metal (hinges;clasp)

Height: 200mm (each)
Width: 90mm
Depth: 12mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist covering his head with his cloak; onlookers; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead (Christ in Glory); Christ displaying his wounds; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (spear, nails, cross); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling; souls rising from their tombs; souls including kings and bishop; angels blowing trumpets.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Beaded border.

Westwood 1876: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: 19th century.
Chiesi 2011: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Théis Collection (1874, No. 686). Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 402.
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), pp. 227-228, no. 99.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 283, n. 2.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 179-188.

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