Gothic Ivories Project | Originally gabled wing (fragment of a polyptych or tabernacle), 3 registers, 1 arch across, bands of roses (décor de roses) (Front)

Register 1: Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; flying demons.
Register 2: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint John the Evangelist; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Register 3: Buffeting of Christ; head of Christ covered by a cloth.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Inscription: '8809/R-73101/las dos tiras'.

Object Condition
Missing: the gabled upper part and the lower left corner have been cut.
Broken around the hinges. Rusted hinges.

Comments
Considered to be a fragment of the same polyptych as 71.176 (see related object). This part was the far right wing. The centre part certainly contained a crucifixion in high relief.

Provenance
Unknown collection, Spain. Bought by Henry Walters from Léon Gruel in 1923 in Paris; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Bibliography
L. Randall, 'Games and the Passion in Pucelle's Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux', in Speculum, 47, no. 2 (April 1972), fig. 6.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 290b.

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