Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 3 registers, with arches (tabernacle; colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front, open)

Wing, left
Register 1: kneeling archangel Gabriel (part of the Annunciation).
Register 2: unidentified tonsured saint holding a martyr's palm and book; unidentified tonsured saint holding a book and a cross (possibly saint Francis of Assisi).
Register 3: missing.
Centre panel
In the gable: God the Father blessing and holding an open book.
Register 1: seated Virgin and Child; nude child; saint Catherine of Alexandria; saint Mary Magdalene.
Register 2: Nativity; Visitation; King David playing the psaltery.
Register 3: Presentation in the Temple with Joseph; male servant holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ among the Doctors.
Wing, right
Register 1: Virgin sitting at a pulpit; open book.
Register 2: unidentified tonsured saint holding a shining host; unidentified tonsured saint holding a martyr's palm and book.
Register 3: missing.
Pinnacles and elaborate tracery. Twisted columns.

Dieppe 2005: Northern Italy, ca. 1460-1480.
Malgouyres 2010: Northern Italy, ca. 1460-1480.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Hinges hidden behind twisted columns.

Reverse
Smooth and flat.

Object Condition
This triptych is made of numerous ivory pieces.

Provenance
Barker collection. Louis-Charles Timbal collection: acquired by the Musée du Louvre with part of his collection after his death in 1882.

Bibliography
[E. Saglio], Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 60, pp. 75-79.
L. Courajod, E. Molinier, Musées nationaux. Catalogue de la collection Timbal (Paris, 1882), no. 60, pp. 75-79.
E. Molinier, 'Un ivoire italien du XVe siècle au musée du Louvre. Le Triomphe de la Renommée', in Gazette archéologique (1883), pp. 226-233 (p. 226, n. 1).
E. Müntz, Histoire de l'art pendant la Renaissance, 3 vols. (Paris, 1886-1895), II, p. 817.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 141, pp. 280-288.
E. Molinier, Histoire générale des Arts appliqués à l'Industrie (Paris, 1896), I: Les Ivoires, pp. 212-213, pl. XXI.
C. Scherer, Elfenbeinplastik seit der Renaissance (1903), pp. 5-6, fig. 2.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 349.
M. Oberschall, 'Magyar és Magyar vonatkozású müveszeti emlékek Párisban', in Magyar Müvészet, 7 (1931), pp. 147-165.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Rutland-Tokyo, 1966), p. 342, pl. 55.
J. Balogh, A Müvészet Mátyás király udvarában, I, Adattár (Budapest, 1966), p. 295.
Ivoires: de l'Orient ancien aux temps modernes, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2004, no. 173, pp. 166, 175.
Ivoires du Musée du Louvre 1480-1850: une collection inédite, exhibition catalogue, Dieppe, Château-Musée de Dieppe, 2005, no. 1, fig. 13.
D. Brouzet, 'L'art de l'ivoire de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle', in L'Estampille. L'Objet d'art, 404 (July-August 2005), pp. 44-45, fig. 1.
P. Malgouyres, Ivoires de la Renaissance et des Temps Modernes. La Collection du Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2010), no. 52.

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