Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, with arches, 2 registers (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled triptych, with arches, 2 registers (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

Gabled triptych, with arches, 2 registers (frise d'arcatures; colonnettes) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin.

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Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 134mm
Width: 134mm

Wing, left
Register 1: unidentified standing female saint holding a martyr's palm; standing angel swinging a censer (part of the Coronation).
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Register 1: Coronation; two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Register 1: unidentified standing female saint holding a martyr's palm; standing angel swinging a censer (part of the Coronation).
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple with the Virgin holding Christ.
Rounded trefoils. Tracery. Rose windows.

Koechlin Number: 0053

Frankfurt 1875: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 13th century.

Attribution
Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Koechlin 1924)

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy.

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles.

Provenance
Collection of Count Karl zu Eltz, Eltville (Germany)(at least 1875-1924).

Bibliography
Historische Ausstellung kunstgewerblicher Erzeugnisse zu Frankfurt am Main, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, 1875, pl. XVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 85-86; II, no. 53.

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