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

Wing, left
Register 1: unidentified standing female saint; 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; standing angel swinging a censer (part of the Coronation).
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple with the Virgin holding Christ.
Rounded trefoils. Tracery.

Frankfurt 1875: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 13th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1290.

Attribution
Soissons group (Atelier du Diptyque de Soissons)(Schnitzler, Volbach and Bloch, 1964)

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy (in earlier photographs).

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles.

Provenance
Collection of Count Karl zu Eltz, Eltville (Germany)(at least 1875-1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (in 1964).

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.
Große Kunst des Mittelalters aus Privatbesitz, ed. by H. Schnitzler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 1960, no. 18.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.56, p. 21.

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