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Diptych, 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
Diptych, 2 registers, 2 arches across (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Passion.

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Cologne, Kolumba, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln

Inv. 1990/67

Ivory

Height: 202mm
Width: 88mm (each)
Depth: 9mm

Wing, left
Register 1: Flagellation. Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ.
Register 2: Judas receiving the reward; Christ before Pilate.
Wing, right
Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Stephaton holding a bucket; sun and moon. Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep.
Register 2: Noli me tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); Harrowing of Hell with Adam and Eve coming out of the Mouth of Hell; flying demon.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.


Koechlin Number: 0358

Koechlin 1924: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Petzel 2007: Paris (?), 1320-1340.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: gold (hair, architectural details; hems; wings of the angel; cross; etc.), green (tree; crown of thorns), red (flames from the mouth of Hell; parts of garments), blue (parts of garments; architectural details). Ivory coloured in the places where black, green and blue polychromy used to be.For more details, see Petzel 2007.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
The cavities left by the missing hinges have been filled with pieces of ivory.

Provenance
Augustinian convent of the Welsh Nuns (Welschennonnen), Trier. Liège, collection of Mgr Schoolmeesters (in 1924). Bought in Brussels in 1990 from Philippe Carlier via Galerie d'Arenberg.

Bibliography
E. Aus'M'Weerth, Kunstdenkmaler des Christlichen Mittelalters in den Rheinlanden, 3 vols. and atlas of plates (Leipzig, 1857-1866), Atlas: pl. LVIII, no. 5.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, p. 200.
Exposition Universelle de Liège: catalogue de l'Art Ancien, exhibition catalogue, 1905, no. 1452.
G. Terme, L'art ancien au pays de Liège. Album publié sous le patronage du Comité Exécutif de l'Exposition Universelle de Liège, 1905 (Liège, [1912 ?]), pl. LXXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 185, 187; II, no. 358; III, pl. LXXXI.
K. K. Petzel, Elfenbein Diptychon mit Passions- und Erscheinungsszenen (Cologne, 2007).


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