Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ, 1340/60
Ivory
21.3 x 21.6 cm (8 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment, 1970.115
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Medieval Decorative Arts from Chicago Collections, 2 October 1985–5 January 1986.
Publication History
Fine Medieval, Renaissance and Later Works of Art, Stonyhurst Sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1969, lot no. 13.
Reproduction, Connoisseur 173, no. 697 (1970), n.p.
Richard Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 76–77, no. 76.
Peter Barnet, ed., Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age (Detroit, 1997), pp. 104–07, fig. VII-6.
Christina Nielsen, ed., Devotion and Splendor: Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 2 (2004), p. 61, no. 39.
Ownership History
The Jesuit Church at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, before 1900 [according to undated memo from John Maxon in curatorial file]. Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, 1900 [according to source cited above and Stonyhurst accession number, 00.13, on front of object; see also letter from Ronald Lee to Richard Randall, 23 December 1969, in curatorial file]. Sold, London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1969, lot 13 to unknown buyer (Millich?). Ronald A. Lee, London, by December 23, 1969 [according to letter from Ronald Lee to Richard Randall, 23 December 1969, in curatorial file; see also Connoisseur]. Sold by Ronald A. Lee to the Art Institute, 1970.