Gothic Ivories Project | Wing, right (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (Front)

Wing, right (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (Front)

Wing, right (part of a diptych), 3 registers, 4 arches across (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Passion.

Unknown location

S/n

Ivory

Height: 169mm
Width: 84mm

Register 1: Christ washing the feet of the apostles.
Register 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep; tree.
Register 3: Crucifixion; Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; soldier with a shield with a face; sun and moon.
Incised trefoils in the spandrels.

Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.

Comments
The left wing is now in Baltimore (Inv. 71.208). See related object.

Provenance
Meyer-Fuld collection, Frankfurt. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
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.73, p. 25.

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