Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 1 register (Back)

Wing, left
Saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a book and a martyr's palm.
Centre panel
Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Saint Peter with a key; unidentified coat of arms hanging from a rosette.

Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century (centre part) and 19th century (wings).

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (hair; along the hems, wings); red (architectural details; garments); green (haloes; martyr's palm; wings; lining of the angels and the Virgin's cloaks; gable of the centre panel); blue (garments; coat of arms; architectural details).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Wings: longer edges slightly chamfered. Modern labels on the back of the wings.

Object Condition
The two wings are later replacements of the original wings.

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: Trimolet bequest, 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 340.
Le faux dans l'art et dans l'histoire, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1955, not paginated.
Le goût du gothique chez les collectionneurs du XIXe siècle, exhibition catalogue, Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1961, p. 20, no. 51.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 10.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 56, in relation to no. 5.

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