Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panels, 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaques ajourées; plaquettes), arranged into a diptych (Front)

Openwork panels, 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaques ajourées; plaquettes), arranged into a diptych (Front)

Openwork panels, 1 register, 1 ogee arch across (plaques ajourées; plaquettes), arranged into a diptych (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Lives of saints.

Repository Institution
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Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum

Y1929-160a-h

Ivory;metal (later frame)

Height: 36mm
Width: 51mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Saint Catherine of Alexandria before emperor Maxentius; she refuses to worship pagan statues. Dispute of saint Catherine of Alexandria with fifty philosophers.
Register 2: Flagellation of saint Catherine of Alexandria; Saint Catherine of Alexandria is tortured on a wheel with iron spikes; the wheel is destroyed by a thunderbolt from heaven.
Wing, right
Register 1: The fifty philosophers are burned alive. Saint Catherine of Alexandria is thrown into prison.
Register 2: Saint Catherine of Alexandria is beheaded; the body of saint Catherine of Alexandria is carried to Mount Sinai by angels.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Museum's opinion 2010: early 19th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy (ground).

Comments
Consisting of 8 plaques arranged into a diptych.

Provenance
Bought by the Museum in 1929 thanks to the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund.

Bibliography
The Carl Otto von Kienbush, Jr. Memorial Collection, exhibition catalogue, Princeton, The Art Museum, 1956, no. 66.
Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, The Frick Art Museum, April 1-May 26 1996, Penn State University, The Palmer Museum of Art, January 9-March 3 1996, no. 57, p. 221.

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