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

Wings, left
Register 1: Annunciation; Visitation.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; Christ standing on the Virgin's left knee.
Wings, right
Register 1: Nativity with Joseph holding Christ Child; swaddled Christ. Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ.

Koechlin 1912: France, mid 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy: architectural details, haloes, hanging lamp in the Nativity scene, along the hems, crowns.

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles (replaced).

Provenance
Lucien Cottreau collection, Paris (by 1900): his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 April 1910, lot 33. Baboin collection, Lyon (at least 1912-1924). Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).

Bibliography
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 139.
M. Hamel, 'La Collection Cottreau', in Les Arts 100 (April 1910), p. 5.
R. Koechlin, Ivoires gothiques: Collection Emile Baboin (Lyon, 1912), no. 22.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 126, 128; II, no. 145.
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.96, p. 28.

All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.