Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 3 registers, bands of rosettes (décor de roses) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation of the Virgin's death by an angel (Gabriel) with a palm branch. Saint John receives the palm from the Virgin.
Register 2: the miraculous transportation of the apostles, bringing them to the Virgin's deathbed (?); saint Peter holding a key; saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 3: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles asleep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Assumption; Virgin's body borne to Heaven; musician angels (portable organ; string instruments; psaltery); kneeling male figures praying.
Register 3: funeral procession of the Virgin; the high priest Jechonias is punished for trying to overturn Mary's bier: his hands stick to it.

Koechlin 1912: 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France (Paris), c. 1340.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three original hinges but has now two modern hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Count Girolamo Possenti di Fabriano: sale, Florence, 1 April 1880, lot 40. Collection of Michel Boy, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-14 May 1905, lot 290. Emile Baboin collection (at least 1912-1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 367.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 135.
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques. Collection Émile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 140; II, no. 216bis.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.64.

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