Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

Diptych, 1 register, with quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond (plaquettes; quatre-feuilles) (CAST, front)

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Subject
Religious.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 95mm
Width: 68 mm (each)

Wing, left
Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); Virgin and saint John the Evangelist; Adam collecting Christ's blood in a chalice at the foot of the cross. Four Symbols of the Evangelists with scrolls in the spandrels: angel of saint Matthew, eagle of saint John the Evangelist; ox of saint Luke and lion of saint Mark.
Wing, rightChrist in Glory with Resurrection of the Dead; Christ displaying his wounds; souls rising from their tombs; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; spear; crown of thorns); Virgin Mary and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Two angels swinging censers in the spandrels; two more angels in the lower spandrels.
Both scenes in quatrefoil enclosed in a diamond. Pointed trefoils.

Westwood 1876: French, 15th century.
Lowden 2013: Northern France, c. 1325-1350.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two later metal hinges.

Comments
So far, this piece is only known through a cast made in the mid 19th century. The photograph on this page is of the cast now in the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art (no. 305).

Provenance
Unknown provenance.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 496 ('58.217).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 64-66, fig. 36, in relation to no. 7.

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