Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon. Christ among the Doctors.
Wing, right
Register 1: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled Christ. Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Flagellation; Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Border of dentils.

Molinier 1890: France, end of the 14th century.
Ganay 1913: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1350-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of reddish gilding.

Object Condition
Cracked around the lower hinge.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 112. Dmitri Schevitch collection, Paris: his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4-7 April 1906, lot 145. Georges Dormeuil collection (at least form 1913); Paris (in 1924): his sale, 17 June 1949, lot 35. Kofler-Truniger collection (in 1964). Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (in 1993).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 77 (E. Molinier).
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 115, p. 59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 184, 186, 200 and 209; II, no. 351; III, pl. LXXXI.
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.86.

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