Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Pilate washing his hands; Flagellation; whips.
Register 2: Judas receiving the reward; hanging purse. Betrayal (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas).
Wing, right
Register 1: Carrying of the Cross; Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Death of Judas (Judas hanging); Arrest of Christ; man holding a lantern.

Darcel and Basilewski 1874: France, 13th century.
Kondakov 1891: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 1st third of the 14th century.
Erbach 1993: French, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Piotrovsky and Norman 1994: France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Kryzhanovskaya 2014: France, mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy and gilding: gold (hair and beards; along the hems; decorated background; buttons, etc.); green (tree), blue (lining of garments), red (shoes; blood; lips), red and green (haloes; striped garments); red, purple and black (shoes), brown (cross).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Lower border of the left wing chipped.
Holes in the underside to attach the diptych onto a base.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris, since 1865; acquired by the Museum in 1885.

Bibliography
Exposition de 1865 au Palais de l'industrie, Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie (Paris, 1866), no. 331.
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 98.
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 408.
Exposition universelle de 1878 à Paris. Galerie de l'histoire du travail (Paris 1878).
N. Kondakov, Императорский Эрмитажъ. Указатель отделенія среднихъ вековъ и эпохи возрожденія [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 47, p. 157.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 152; II, no. 243.
E. A. Lapkovskaia, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Prikladnoe iskusstvo Zapadnoi Evropy V-XV vv. (State Hermitage Museum. Applied Arts of Western Europe from the 5th to the 15th century) (Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1956), p. 146.
Ausstellung der französichen Kunst des 12.-20. Jahrhunderts, exhibition catalogue, Moscow, 1960, p. 146.
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, 6 April 1993 - 6 January 1994, no. 6.
M. B. Piotrovsky, G. Norman, V. Suslov, The State Hermitage; Masterpieces from the Museum's collection (London, 1994), II, no. 449.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (St Peterburg, 2014), no. 86.

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