About the Artwork
Diptych
14th century
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French
Unknown
Ivory; modern metal mounts
3 1/8 x 4 3/8 x 1/4 in. 8.1 x 11.3 x 0.8 cm width of each leaf: 2 1/8 in. 5.4 cm
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
43.457
Public Domain
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Provenance
Wyndham Cook, London;, London, 8 July 1925;
purchased from Henri Leman, Paris.
Note: presumably it was in the possession of Sir Francis Cook, Bt. (1817-1901, Doughty House, Richmond; when he died his ivories passed to his second son, Wyndham Cook (1860-1905). Wyndham commissioned scholarly catalogues of his collection, the first volume appearing in 1904, and two others, sponsored by his widow, in 1908 and 1910. These should be checked for references to the piece. When she died in 1925 their only son Humphrey (1893-1978) sold the entire collection (bronzes, silver, ivories, china, miniatures, missals, antique gems, medieval jewellery) at Christie's. See for Cook family history/collecting: sale cat., Christie's London, Old Master Pictures, 8 Dec. 2005, pp. 42-55, esp. p. 49.
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Randall, R. H., Jr., The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Carvings in North American Collections, N.Y., 1993, no. 94, p. 84.
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French, Diptych, 14th century, Ivory; modern metal mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 43.457.
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