Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette) (Front, open)

Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette) (Front, open)

Diptych, 2 registers, 5 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnette) (Front, open)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Life of the Virgin.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

107367

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasps)

Height: 152mm
Width: 188mm (open); 93.2mm (closed)
Depth: 9.5mm
Weight: 275g

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Register 2: Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb. Ascension with the Virgin and apostles.
Wing, right
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Pentecost with the Virgin and apostles; dove of the Holy Spirit. Coronation of the Virgin.
Border of dentils.

Koechlin Number: 0356

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2008: France (probably Paris), c. 1375-1400.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Wernher label: 'no. 693'.

Provenance
Sir Julius Wernher, 1st Baronet, Bath House, London; Alice, Lady Wernher, Sir Wernher's widow, subsequently Lady Ludlow, Bath House, London; Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Baronet, Lady Wernher's son, Bath House, London; Thomson Collection, Toronto: acquired, Christie's, London, Wernher sale, 5 July 2000, lot W61; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 284, pp. 100-101.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires Gothiques Français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 186, n. 3; II, no. 356.

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