Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 1 register (Front)

Height: 100mm
Width: 271mm (open), 134mm (closed)
Depth: 5mm
Weight: 45.6g (left wing); 93.5g (central panel); 49.2g (right panel)

Wing, left
Resurrection with soldiers asleep; soldiers in armour; trees.
Centre panel
Crucifixion with thieves; Virgin; saint John the Evangelist; onlookers including the Holy Women; soldiers with spears (Longinus?).
Wing, right
Adoration of the Apostles; seated Virgin and Child; crown; throne; eleven apostles.

Egbert 1929: North Italy (Venice), 1st half of the 15th century.
Morey 1936: North Italy (Venice?), beginning of the 15th century.

Attribution
Style of the Innes Diptych (Egbert 1929)

Hinges
Two ring hinges on either side (fragment of one of the loops remains in the hinge hole on the upper right side of the central leaf).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: lower left corner of the right wing. Vertical cracks.

Provenance
Collection of Francesco Vettori (b. 1692, d. 1770), Prefect and curator of the Sacred Museum of the Vatican Library from 1757.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 909, p. 322; Appendix, no. 18, p. 348.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 67, pl. XVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques francais (Paris, 1924), I, p. 349, n. 1.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 (pp. 175-182, fig. 14).
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), pp. 83-84, no. A103, pl. XXVII.

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