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

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

Wing, left

Wing, right

Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 125mm
Width: 50mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Flagellation; whips.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); tree.


Koechlin Number: 0304

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Comments
When in the Gurney collection, these panels were the wings of a triptych whose centre panel was modern.

Provenance
R. Napier collection: sale, Christie's, 14 May 1877. J. Gurney collection: sale, Christie's, 8 March 1898, lot 162 (with ill.). Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris: his sale, Paris, 11-16 May 1908, lot 481 (purchased by Hamburger?). Duveen brothers.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 172; II, no. 304.


Image

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