Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Detail)

Wing, left
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.
Wing, right
Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Lowden 2008: France (Paris), c. 1350-1375.
Museum's opinion 2008: France (Paris), c. 1350-1375.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Crudely scratched post-medieval inscriptions: two monograms (perhaps 17th century), RBES around the letters AV, and the letters MORUS arranged in the form of a heart.

Comments
Panels mounted back to back (when closed) rather than the more usual face-to-face arrangement. Weight: 1457 g.

Provenance
Collection of Major Andrew Wingfield. Christie's, London, 14 May 1953, lot 103. Hermann Baer: purchased in London in 1957; Thomson collection, Toronto: acquired from Maria Baer, London, 1 December 1979; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
Treasures of a Collector: European Works of Art, 1100-1800 from the Thomson Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997.
J. Cherry, J. Lowden, Medieval Ivories and Works of Art: The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, 2008), no. 25.

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