Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 full and 2 half arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Wing, left

Wing, right

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Subject
Religious. Lives of Saints.

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Toronto, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

29117

Ivory;metal (hinges and clasp)

Height: 98.4mm
Width: 59.3 (closed); 119.4mm (open)
Depth: 4.3mm
Weight: 88g

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Saint Catherine of Alexandria before emperor Maxentius; she refuses to worship pagan statues.
Wing, right
Register 1: Saint Catherine of Alexandria is beheaded; the body of saint Catherine of Alexandria is carried to Mount Sinai by angels.
Register 2: Saint Catherine of Alexandria is tortured on a wheel with iron spikes; the wheel is destroyed by a thunderbolt from heaven.

Museum's opinion 2008: German or North French (?), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of metal fittings on the outer edges.

Object Condition
Hole in the inner upper corner of each panel.

Provenance
Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1966, lot 108; Hermann Baer, London; Thomson Collection, Toronto: bought from Hermann Baer, London, 31 December 1969; since 2008, The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto.

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