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Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back, closed)
Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back, closed)
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Religious. Life of Christ.

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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1471

Ivory;metal (modern frame)

Height: 160mm
Width: 231mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Raising of Lazarus; Martha and Mary, his sisters; several onlookers blocking their nose against the dead man's smell; Lazarus, wrapped in a shroud, emerges from the tomb.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sword. 
Wing, right
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Entombment with the Virgin embracing Christ; angel holding an aspergillum and a situla (holy water bucket); Holy Women; kneeling apostle kissing Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's hand.


Koechlin Number: 0787

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Jerusalem 1995: Germany, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Zamoyski and Rostworowski 2001: Germany (Thuringia or Saxony), 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Thuringia or Saxony (?), 3rd quarter of 14th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Broken around the upper hinge on the left wing (repaired with a piece of ivory).
Crack across the lower left corner.

Provenance
Said to have belonged to Jadwiga of Poland (b. c. 1373/4, d. 1399). Collection of Jan Paweł Woronicz (b. 1757, d. 1829)(in 1829); inherited by his nephew, Antoni Woronicz. Collection of Bolesław Podczaszyński, architect and collector. Czartoryski collection (appears in the inventory in 1874).

Bibliography
Katalog Wystawy Starnozytnosci, exhibition catalogue, Warsaw, 1856, no. 914.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 282-283; II, no. 787; III, pl. CXXXIV.
Princely Taste: Treasures from Great Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, 1995, p. 113.
A. Zamoyski, M. Rostworowski, The Princes Czartoryski Museum: A History of the Collections (Kraków, 2001), p. 125, fig. 227.


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