Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Back, open)

Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Back, open)

Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across, bands of rosettes (colonnettes; décor de roses) (Back, open)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Passion.

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Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Inv. 1893.202

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 238mm
Width: 210 mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross; man holding a hammer.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi continued on the centre panel).
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Adam rising from a tomb and collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; angels holding the sun and the moon.
Register 2: Seated Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Register 1: 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 2: Presentation in the temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoils and rounded trefoils in the gables; pinnacles; medallions enclosing quatrefoils in the spandrels and gables of the centre panel.

Koechlin Number: 0204

Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (later, according to Koechlin)

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Pieces of ivory have been added to give the appropriate shape to the centre panel and the foliated crockets along the gable of the centre panel are also carved out of two different pieces of ivory.
Repairs around the hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 129; acquired by the Museum at this sale.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 94 (E. Molinier).
J. Brinckmann, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Bericht für das Jahr 1893 (Hamburg, 1894), ill.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 137; II, no. 204.
Museum für Kunst und gewerbe Hamburg: Handbuch (Hamburg, 1980), p. 60.

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