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

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Ivory

Height: 95 mm (if from Essingh collection)
Width: 65 mm (if from Essingh collection)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Register 2: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Virgin in a mandorla borne to Heaven by angels (Assumption).
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Unpublished.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges

Provenance
Probably collection of Anton Josef Essingh (b. 1787, d. 1864), Cologne: his sale, Heberle, Cologne, 18 September 1865, lot 873 (description corresponds). Schnitzler collection, Cologne.

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