Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left (part of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Basel, Historisches Museum Basel

1870.462.

Ivory;iron (fragments of hinges).

Height: 163mm
Width: 83mm
Depth: 9.5mm
Weight: 166.92g

Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; sun and moon.
Register 2: Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas); Death of Judas (Judas hanging).
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0309

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, late 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges.

Provenance
Public art collection (pre 1870; mentioned in 1859 catalogue) which became part of the Historisches Museum when it opened in 1892.

Bibliography
Verzeichniss der Mittelalterlichen Sammlung in der S. Nicolaus-Capelle und dem Conciliumssaale des Basler Münsters (Basel, 1859), p. 19, no. 43.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 172; II, no. 309.

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