Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb and three soldiers asleep. Noli me Tangere (Christ appearing to saint Mary Magdalene); tree.
Register 2: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet; saint John the Evangelist.
Wing, right
Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Crucifixion, with jet of blood or spear striking the Virgin's chest; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers.
Pinnacles.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.

Reverse
Inscription: 'M. Chatelain...'.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 334.
Le faux dans l'art et dans l'histoire, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1955, not paginated.
Le goût du gothique chez les collectionneurs du XIXe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1961, no. 50.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 139.

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