Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 1 arch across (plaquette) (Front)

Wing, left
Ascension; Virgin and apostles including saint John the Evangelist; clouds.
Wing, right
Pentecost; dove of the Holy Spirit; apostles; tongues of fire.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2013: French, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Queen Friederike von Hannover; Welfen-Museum, Hannover (in 1862).

Bibliography
Das Königliche Welfen-Museum zu Hannover im Jahre 1863 (Hannover, 1864), p. 64.
H. W. H. Mithoff, Kunstdenkmale und Alterthümer im Hannoverschen (Hannover, 1871-1880), vol. 4 (1877): Fürstenthum Lüneburg, p. 164.
F. Krüger, Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover: Regierungsbezirk Lüneburg (Hannover, 1906), p. 190, fig. 12.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 184, 199, 215, 295; II, no. 510; III, pl. XCII.
F. Stuttmann, Der Reliquienschatz der Goldenen Tafel des St. Michaelisklosters in Lüneburg (Berlin, 1937), p. 80, no. 20, fig. 70.
Welfenschatz, Schatz der Goldenen Tafel, Lüneburger Ratssilber, Hildesheimer Silberfund, exhibition catalogue, Hannover Kestner-Museum, 3 December 1956-17 March 1957, no. 79.
F. Stuttmann, Mittelalter I: Bronze, Email, Elfenbein (Hannover, 1966), pp. 116ff, no. 118.
R. Marth, Der Schatz der Goldenen Tafel: Kestner-Museum Hannover (Hannover, 1994), pp. 28ff, p. 34, no. 26, fig. 29.

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