Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

Wing, right (fragment of a diptych), 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures; plaquette) (Front)

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Amiens, Musée de Picardie

Inv. M.P.3063.549

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 147 mm
Width: 98 mm
Depth: 8 mm

Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist. Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body.
Register 2: Death of Judas (Judas hanging). Christ before Pilate; Pilate washing his hands; tree; ewer.

Koechlin Number: 0289

Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: France (Paris), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side (the upper one coincides with the point of breakage).

Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the panel.

Provenance
Collection Albert Maignan (b. 1845, d. 1908); bequeathed by Maignan to the museum in 1908, but entered the collections in 1927.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 168; II, no. 289.
F. Lernout et al., Le Moyen Age au Musée de Picardie (Amiens, 1992), no. 12, pp. 36-37.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 83.

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