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

Wing, left
Register 1: Raising of Lazarus; several onlookers blocking their nose against the dead man's smell; Lazarus, wrapped in a shroud, emerges from the tomb; Martha and Mary, his sisters.
Register 2: Christ washing the feet of saint Peter.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Object Condition
Broken around the lower hinge.

Provenance
Collection of the Countess Valencia de Don Juan. Fitzhenry collection: his sale, 18 November 1913, lot 37 (with ill.). Habich collection (no. 458). Collection of Anton Josef Essingh (b. 1787, d. 1864), Cologne: his sale, Heberle, 18 September 1865, lot 867, pl. VII. Collection of Jacques Reubell, Paris (in 1924): sale, Paris, 7-8 February 1934, lot 186. Brimo de Laroussilhe collection, Paris, 2008, cat. 34.
Note: the order of this provenance has not been checked.

Bibliography
M. A. Siret, 'Collections Essingh à Cologne', in Revue de l'art chrétien 9 (October 1865), p. 518.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XXX.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 53).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 799; III, pl. CXXXVII.

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