Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled polyptych (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)

Wings, left
Register 1: Annunciation.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ holding a fruit or orb in his left hand; crown.
Wings, right
Register 1: Nativity with Joseph holding Christ.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple.

London 1923: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 13th or beginning of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 1300-1325.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: painted trefoil in the gables, along the hems, architectural details, hair, necklace, etc.

Reverse
Smooth and flat. Paper label: 'Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857. Museum of Art'. Back affixed with modern metal rings and attached to a plastic sheet.

Object Condition
A number of drilled holes. Restoration to gables.

Provenance
Collection of Hollingworth Magniac, London (b. 1786, d. 1867) (exhibited at the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester 1857): his sale, Christies, Mason and Woods, London, 2 and 4 July 1892, lot 257. Collection of Charles Borradaile, Brighton (active 1905-1917): British Museum, by bequest, 1923.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 476.
O. M. Dalton, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, XXVI (London, 1913 – 1914), pp. 14-15 (p. 14).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 98, pl. XXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 125, 126, 128, 129, 203; II, no. 134; III, pl. XXXVII.

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