Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquettes) (Front)

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

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

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Religious. Passion.

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Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts

43.457

Ivory;metal (later hinges)

Height: 81mm
Width: 113mm (open); 54mm (each)
Depth: 8mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ.
Register 2: Seated Virgin and Child (Virgo lactans); two kneeling angels swinging censers and holding navettes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross.
Register 2: saint John the Baptist; saint James the Greater; saint Laurence.
Pointed trefoils.

Randall 1993: Flemish, 1340-1360.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two modern hinges.

Provenance
Collection of Robert H. Tannahill: given to the Institute in 1943.

Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 62.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 94.

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