Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Back, wing, left)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem; foal of the she-ass; tree. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter; lantern; halberd; soldiers in armour.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924 and Vitali 1976: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Chiesi 2011: France, 1360-1380.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (capitals and bases of columns; lily; tree; palm).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Pencil inscription: '214'.

Object Condition
Face of the angel in the Annunciation scene damaged.

Provenance
Parish church of Acquanegra sul Chiese, Mantua; acquired in 1890 by the Museum.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 376.
U. Rossi, 'Il Museo Nazionale di Firenze nel triennio 1889-1891', in Archivio storico dell'arte IV (1891), pp. 1-24 (p. 22).
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Rome, 1898), p. 367.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 187, 190; II, no. 366.
L. Vitali, Avori gotici francesi (Milan, 1976), no. 39.
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 377-383.

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