Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 2 registers, 1 arch across (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Virgin praying (part of the Crucifixion).
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Register 1: Crucifixion; Longinus piercing Christ's side; Stephaton giving Christ vinegar; Sun and Moon.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi; angel crowning the Virgin.
Wing, right
Register 1: Saint John the Evangelist (part of the Crucifixion).
Register 2: Presentation; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Medallion containing a quatrefoil enclosing a protruding cone in the centre gable; medallions containing a quatrefoil enclosing a protruding cone in the spandrels.

Molinier 1890: France, 14th century.
Bode 1897: Italian, 14th century.
Ganay 1913: Italy, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy. gold (hair, background pattern, sun and moon, clothing borders, architecture); blue (clothing lining, spandrels); green (spear, halos, gifts), red (blood, arches, book, leggings, gits); brown (cross).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Labels OH EB8 (for Oscar Hainauer); inscriptions in ink: no. 6 et 363.

Comments
Unusually, the wings are each made of two pieces of ivory which can close separately over the upper or lower part of the centre panel.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 234; purchased by Seillère. Collection of Frédéric Spitzer, Paris: his sale, Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April 1893, lot 91.Collection of Oscar Hainauer (b. 1840s?, d. 1894), Berlin (Inv. Eb. 8). Georges Dormeuil collection, (at least from 1913); private collection, London (bought at the Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 9).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 56 (E. Molinier).
W. Bode, Die Sammlung Oscar Hainauer (Berlin, 1897), p. 82, no. 137.
Exposition d'objets d'art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, organisée par la marquise de Ganay chez Mr Jacques Seligmann, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Hôtel de Sagan, 1913, no. 123.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 136; II, no. 207; III, pl. XLVII.

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