Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Beaded border on 3 sides. Trefoils in the spandrels.
Randall 1993: Flemish or Mosan, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Carved inscription in Flemish, in Gothic characters: 'DIT GAF DONA[ES]' (the rest of the inscription is on the back of the left leaf and reads, in full: 'DIT GAF DONA[ES] DIE MOER M[IER] VRAUE TAN[N]JE TVOS INT JAER MCCCCLXXVIII' (Donaes de Moer gave this to Milady Tanne, the daughter of De Vos, in 1478).Blumka label. Sammlung Bondy label: 'no. 1072'. Other label: '546'.
Comments
The other wing is now in the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. The two wings must have been separated at some time before 1927 when the left wing entered the collection of the Rhode Island School.
Provenance
Collection of Oscar Bondy, Vienna: bought by Léopold Blumka, New York, in 1933; collection of Mrs Ruth Blumka, New York (in 1993); private collection, London (bought from Blumka, New York, 26 January 2004).
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 118, fig. 12.
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