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

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

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Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum

M.2-1926

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 98mm
Width: 60mm (each)
Depth: 8mm

Wing, left
Saint Margaret emerging from the dragon unharmed; saint Margaret holding a crucifix; standing Virgin and Child (Vierge Glorieuse; Virgo lactans); saint Catherine with wheel and martyr's palm; tonsured male figure kneeling in donor position.
Wing, right
Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's other hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; sun and moon; female figure kneeling in donor position (possibly a nun).
Four medallions enclosing quatrefoils.

London 1923: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Label with inscription: 'LEVERTON HARRIS'.

Object Condition
Holes on the outer edge for missing clasp.
Two holes in the upper edge.

Provenance
Said to have been left by the Curé of the Diocese of Versailles to a convent in Versailles; bought from the latter by Durlacher who sold it to the Rt. Hon Leverton-Harris; collection of Rev. Hon. Frederick Leverton Harris (b. 1864, d. 1926): his bequest to the Museum in 1926.

Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 109, pp. 73-74 (in Harris collection).

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