Randall 1993: German (Cologne), 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two modern hinges.
Object Condition
The lower outer corner of each wing is chipped, and both have holes drilled near the upper hinge.
Comments
The outer edges are chamfered. Incised leaf of the upper right border of the left wing: could be a workshop mark.
Provenance
Given by A. S. Drey, Munich in 1924.
Bibliography
Art Marches On: The Opening and Dedicating Exhibition of the New Flint Institute of Arts, exhibition catalogue, Flint, Michigan, 1941, no. 28, p. 18.
Songs of Glory, exhibition catalogue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Museum of Art, 1985, no. 85, p. 242.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 90, pp. 82-83.
Mittelalterliche Elfenbeinarbeiten aus der Sammlung des Badischen Landesmuseums Karlsruhe, ed. by K. Beuckers (Karlsruhe, 1999), pp. 61-62, fig. 42 (in relation to no. 7).
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