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Gabled panel, 2 registers, 1 arch across (fragment of a polyptych; tabernacle) (Front)

Gabled panel, 2 registers, 1 arch across (fragment of a polyptych; tabernacle) (Front)
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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ.


Unknown location

S/n

Ivory;metal (remains of hinges)

Height: 180mm
Width: 35mm

Register 1: Visitation.
Register 2: Magus (part of Adoration of the Magi).

Unpublished.


Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Comments
This panel was probably the inner left wing of a polyptych. On the outermost wing would certainly have featured the Annunciation and the two other Magi while the centre panel would have shown the Virgin and Child.

Provenance
Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (Brimo de Laroussilhe catalogue, 1992, no. 15).


Image

Conway Library © Courtauld Institute of Art.

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