Gothic Ivories Project | Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

Diptych, 2 registers, 3 arches across, bands of rosettes (frise d'arcatures; décor de roses) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Life of the Virgin. Infancy of Christ.

Repository Institution
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Bremen, Focke-Museum

Inv. 07595

Ivory;metal (hinges)

Height: 185 mm
Width: 93mm (each)

Wing, left
Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; cruciform halo; titulus; angels holding the sun and the moon.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; angels holding scrolls; sheep.
Wing, right
Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two angels swinging censers, standing on the sides of the bench.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.

Koechlin Number: 0323

Koechlin 1924: French or German in French style, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Hermann Jungk (b. 1834, d. 1902), a Bremen merchant (no. 87); his bequest to the Museum in 1902.

Bibliography
Aus den Sammlungen des Gewerbe Museums zu Bremen, 50 Tafeln (Bremen, s.d.).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 323.

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