Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side.

Reverse
The back of the centre panel is projecting forward so that the cross section of this part is triangular.
Wings: flat and smooth.

Provenance
Collection of Frédéric Spitzer (b. 1815, d. 1890), Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 120. Collection of Caspar and Stephan Bourgeois, art dealers, Cologne: sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 19-27 October 1904. Collection of Theodore M. Davis (b. 1837, d. 1915); bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915.

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 85 (E. Molinier).
H. Semper, 'Über eine besondere Gruppe elfenbeinerner Klappaltärchen des XIV Jahrhunderts', in Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst 11 (1898), p. 123.
R. Koechlin, Les ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 126, 128; II, no. 138.
C. R. Morey, 'Italian Gothic Ivories', in Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, Mss., 1939), p. 193, no. XX, fig. 17.
E. Steingräber, 'Ein Reliquienalter König Philipps V und Königin Johannas von Frankreich', in Pantheon Internationale Zeitschrift für Kunst 33 (1975), pp. 94, 96 and 98 (footnote).
Medieval Images: a Glimpse into the Symbolism and Reality of the Middle Ages, ed. C. Gómez-Moreno, C. E. von Nostitz, exhibition catalogue, Katonah (N. Y.), The Katonah Gallery, 1978, no. 14.
P. Verdier, 'Le Triptyque d'ivoire à volets peints au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon', in Bulletin des Musées et Monuments Lyonnais, vol. VII, no. 2 (1982), p. 25, n. 19.
W. D. Wixom, 'A Late Thirteenth-Century English Ivory Virgin', in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 50, no. 3 (1987), p. 346, n. 16, fig. 5.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 84.