Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; men and women observing the scene from the battlements.
Register 2: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Judas holding a ewer on the other side of the table.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane).
Incised trefoils.

Koechlin, 1924 : French, mid 14th century.
Liebgott 1985: Paris, 1330-1350.
Museum's opinion 2013: Paris, 1330-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
From the collection of the Dukes of Schleswig (according to Koechlin 1924). Registered in the inventories of the Gottorf Kunstkammer of 1710, 1725 and 1743, wherefrom it was obtained by the Royal Kunstkammer in 1775; registered in the inventory of Det kgl. Kunstmuseum (the Royal Danish Art Museum, 1825-1867) of 1825, in the inventory of Museet for Nordiske Oldsager (Museum of Northern Antiquities, 1819-1892) of 1848.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques connus antérieurement au XIXe siècle, in Revue de l'art chrétien (1911), p. 21 (offprint).
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ivoires gothiques français connus antérieurement au XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art Chrétien 41 (1911), pp. 387-402, fig. 20.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 816.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), p. 65, fig. 62.
Gottorf im Glanz des Barock: Die Gottorfer Kunstkammer, ed. by H. Spielmann, J. Drees, M. Bencard, F. Lühning (Schleswig, 1997), p. 346.

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