Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges.

Object Condition
Five later holes in both outer borders.

Comments
Not hinged anymore. 'When in the Hunt collection, the panels were bound with leather, as a book, and contained two Spanish manuscript leaves.' (Randall 1993)

Provenance
Collection of John Hunt, Dublin. Bought from Mathias Komor, New York, in 1956. Memorial collection of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr, Class of 1906.

Bibliography
R. Koch, 'An Ivory Diptych from the Waning Middle Ages', in Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, XVII, no. 2 (1958), pp. 55-64.
R. Randall, 'Jan van Eyck and the St. George Ivories', in the Walters Art Gallery Journal, 39 (1981), pp. 39-48.
Selections from the Art Museum Princeton University (Princeton, 1986), p. 65.
A. St. Clair, E. Parker McLachlan, The Carver's Art: Medieval Sculpture in Ivory, Bone, and Horn, exhibition catalogue, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, 1989, no. 13.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 169.
R. H. Randall, 'Dutch Ivories of the Fifteenth Century', in Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, ed. by R. Falkenburg et al., Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (1994), pp. 126-139 (pp. 128-129, fig. 2).
Medieval Monsters: Dragons and Fantastic Creatures, exhibition catalogue, Katonah, Katonah Museum of Art, 15 January-16 April 1995, p. 16.
T. DaCosta Kaufmann, V. Roehrig Kaufmann, 'Review of R. Falkenburg et al., Beelden in de late Middeleeuwen en Renaissance, Zwolle, 1994' in Kunstchronik 6 (June 1996), pp. 251-256.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, pp. 72-73, fig. 6.