Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures, colonnettes) (Closed)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures, colonnettes) (Closed)

Diptych, 2 registers, 6 arches across (frise d'arcatures, colonnettes) (Closed)

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

Repository Institution
www.palazzomadamatorino.it

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Turin, Palazzo Madama-Museo Civico d'Arte Antica

Inv. 67/AV

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 194mm
Width: 202mm
Depth: 13mm (open)

Wing, left
Register 1: Flagellation; Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Annunciation; Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Wing, right
Register 1: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist holding Christ's other hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet. Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.

Koechlin Number: 0381

Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Mallé 1969: France or Germany, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: Flanders, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Comments
Known between ca. 1950 and 1987 as Inv. 174.

Provenance
Belgiojoso collection. Collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg. Collection of Pietro Accorsi: bought from him in 1935.

Bibliography
Exposition rétrospective (Dresden, 1906), no. 1427.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 191; II, no. 381.
L. Mallé, Smalti-Avori. Museo d'Arte Antica (Turin, 1969), p. 291, pl. 126 (as Inv. 174).

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