Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Diptych, 1 register, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Relgious. Life of Christ.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 90mm
Width: 120mm

Wing, left
Nativity (Virgo Lactans) and Annunciation to the shepherds; swaddled Christ; sheep.
Wing, right
Presentation in the temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Joseph holding a basket of doves brought as offerings.
Border of dentils; pointed trefoils

Koechlin Number: 0496bis

Koechlin 1924: French, end of the 14th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Provenance
Said to have come from a monastery in Heinsberg (see Clemen 1906). Nathan collection, Cologne: sale, Heberle, Cologne, 1904, lot 637. Collection of Dr. Schneider, Heinsberg (in 1924).

Bibliography
P. Clemen, Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz (Düsseldorf, 1891-1944), vol. 8, part 3: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Heinsberg (1906), fig. 50, p. 538.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 496bis.

Image

Out of Copyright. From P. Clemen, Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz (Düsseldorf, 1891-1944), vol. 8, part 3: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Heinsberg (1906).

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