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

Wing, left
Register 1: Entry into Jerusalem.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ); Christ restores Malchus' ear, cut by saint Peter. Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Wing, right
Register 1: Last Supper with saint John the Evangelist leaning on Christ's breast; Christ feeding Judas across the table. Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; soldier with winged hat. Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Repair around the lower hinge on the left wing.Two holes in the upper part of each panel.

Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot (b. 1853, d. 1903), Paris (at least 1906-1924), thence by descent; Christie's, Paris, 4-5 March 2008, lot 217. Blumka Gallery, New York, in 2012 ('Collecting Treasures of the Past VII', exhibition catalogue, Blumka Gallery, 26 January-10 February 2012, New York, no. 17).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. III. L'atelier des diptyques de la Passion', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 35 (1906), pp. 49-62 (p. 57, with ill.).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 292; II, no. 804.

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