Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back (wing, right))

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back (wing, right))

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Back (wing, right))

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Back (wing, left)

Front

Wing, right

Wing, left

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Subject
Religious.

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Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum

Inv. C 6463 a-b

Ivory

Height: 155mm
Width: 93mm (each)
Depth: 11mm
Weight: 177g (left wing); 170g (right wing)

Wing, left
Register 1: Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand; apostles surrounding the Virgin; saint John the Evangelist holding a martyr's palm.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; Christ making a blessing gesture with his right hand and holding the orb and cross; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers; two kneeling angels holding candlesticks.
Register 2: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; angels holding the Sun and the Moon.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Karlsruhe 1999: France (?), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Three broken hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Ink inscription on the back of the right wing: 'A [?] 5.'

Provenance
Collection of Georg Gimbel, Baden-Baden: acquired from him by the museum in 1893.

Bibliography
Verzeichnis der Kunst-Sammlung G. Gimbel in Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, 1889), no. 54.
A. von Schneider, Die Plastischen Bildwerke (vorwiegend oberrheinischer Herkunft) (Karlsruhe, 1938), no. 81.
Mittelalterliche Kunst in Baden, exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1949, no. 120.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K.-G. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), no. 6.

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