Gothic Ivories Project | Casket with arches (coffret; frises d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Lid)

Lid
Flagellation; whips. Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ. Man holding nails and a halberd.
Body, front
Entombment. Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep.
End, right
Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Deposition.
Body, back
Judas and the High Priest; Judas receiving the reward; Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas).
End, left
Soldiers; Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Rosettes in the background. Pinnacles.

Molinier 1890: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1912 and 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Egbert 1929: Noth Italy, c. 1325.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on all sides.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 113. Marcus Antocolsky, Paris: Antocolsky sale, Drouot, Paris, 10 June 1901. Collection of Émile Baboin, Lyon (in 1924).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 78 (E. Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 27.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 159; II, no. 272; III, pl.LXXI.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 190-191, fig. 39].

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