Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Wing, right)

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Wing, left

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

Repository Institution
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Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art

50.299

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 151mm
Width: 195mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd playing bagpipes.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; angels swinging censers; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.

Koechlin Number: 0322

Koechlin 1912: mid-14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: Flemish, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Edouard Chappey, Paris: sold, George Petit, Paris, 5-7 June 1907, lot 1685. Steinharter collection. Emile Baboin collection, Lyons (at least 1912-1924). Bought from Raphael Stora, New York in 1950 thanks to the Edward Drummond Libbey Endowment.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 13.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 322.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 107.

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