Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych; wing, right), 2 registers, 1 arch and 3 arches across (Back)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych; wing, right), 2 registers, 1 arch and 3 arches across (Back)

Gabled panel (fragment of a diptych; wing, right), 2 registers, 1 arch and 3 arches across (Back)

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Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)

Inv. V. 380

Ivory

Height: 166mm
Width: 85mm

Register 1: Last Judgement with Resurrection of the Dead under an arch (Christ in Glory); souls rising from their tombs; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (cross, nails, crown of thorns, spear); Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling; two angels blowing trumpets.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Koechlin Number: 0284

Koechlin 1924 and Brussels 1964: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Two plugged holes.

Provenance
Vermeersch bequest in 1911.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 167; II, no. 284.
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 280, pl. CXXVI, fig. 266.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].

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