Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 4 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Triptych, 4 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Triptych, 4 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Bone;wood;metal (hinges)

Wing, left
Register 1: musician angel blowing a trumpet.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostle asleep; trees; chalice.
Register 3: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); tree.
Register 4: Annunciation.
Centre panel
Register 1: Christ in Glory; blessing gesture; Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi combined with Adoration of the Shepherds (?).
Register 3: Pencost.
Register 4: Entry into Jerusalem (?). Unidentified scene.
Wing, right
Register 1: musician angel blowing a trumpet.
Register 2: Taking of Christ (?).
Register 3: unidentified scene; Christ and apostles.
Register 4: unidentified scene.
Apostles in niches; tracery; row of blind arches; foliated scrolls; pinnacles; tracery.

Goldschmidt 1943: Spain, c. 1850-60.
Museum's opinion 2014: 19th century.

Attribution
Francisco Pallas y Puig (b. 1859, d. 1926), of Valencia (Goldschmidt 1943)

Provenance
Lepke collection: Lepke sale, Berlin, 29-30 April 1897, lot 324.

Bibliography
A. Goldschmidt, 'Pseudo-Gothic Spanish ivory triptychs of the nineteenth century', in The Journal of the Walters Gallery, VI (1943), pp. 49-59, fig. 9.

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