Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 2 ogee arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 1 register, 2 ogee arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

Diptych, 1 register, 2 ogee arches across (plaquettes; frise d'arcatures) (Back)

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Subject
Religious. Saints.

Repository Institution
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Auxerre, Treasury of Saint-Etienne cathedral

Inv. 56

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 96mm
Width: 141mm (open)

Wing, left
Saint Peter holding a key and the model of a church; saint Paul holding a sword.
Wing, right
Saint Stephen holding stones; bishop saint with mitre and cross (saint James the Lesser?).
Coats of arms in the spandrels, including the arms of Créquy family, others unidentified.

Inventaire 1892: 19th century.
Gaborit-Chopin 1992 (unpublished): 19th century, after a 14th-century English model.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth, with two raised areas corresponding to the hinges.

Provenance
In the Treasury of the Cathedral by 1892.

Bibliography
M. Bonneau, M. Monceaux, M. F. Molard, Inventaire du trésor de la cathédrale d'Auxerre (Auxerre, 1892), no. 56.

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