Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Height: 194mm
Width: 229mm (open); 117mm (closed)
Depth: 11mm (open); 21mm (closed)

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Flagellation.
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the sun and the moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (?), c. 1370-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two broken hinges.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
Cracked.

Provenance
Collection of Auguste Dutuit, Paris: Dutuit bequest to the Museum in 1902.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 326.
Exposition universelle, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1867, no. 1765.
G. Cain, La Collection Dutuit au Petit-Palais des Champs-Élysées (Paris, 1903), I, p. 29, III, reproduction.
H. Lapauze, Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit. Notice Historique sur les Frères Dutuit (Paris, 1907), no. 1278, p. 247.
La Collection Dutuit: 100 planches reproduisant les principales oeuvres d'art exposées au Petit Palais des Champs-Élysées [1908], pl. XXIII (?).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 802.
Catalogue sommaire des collections Dutuit, précédé d'une notice sur les frères Dutuit (Paris, 1925), no. 1333.

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