Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled polyptych (tabernacle; colonnettes) (Front)

Wings, left
Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies.
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand.
Wings, right
Register 1: Nativity with Joseph holding Christ.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ.

Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 14th century.
Santi 1969: France, early 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 1st half of 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side (modern, according to Santi).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red (architectural details; mouth).

Reverse
Flat.

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles. Holes at the top of the central part where the pinnacles would have originally been inserted. Crack down the centre gable.

Provenance
Acquired before 1886 (mentioned in the 1886-1890 inventory) by the Musei Civici, Perugia; passed into the collection of the Galleria Nazionale before 1919.

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, p. 378.
A. Lupattelli, Indicazione degli oggetti nei musei di antichità Etrusca, Romana e Medioevale esistenti nell'Universita di Perugia (Perugia, 1882), p. 68.
U. Gnoli, 'Avori francesi nella Galleria Nazionale di Perugia', in Bolletino d'arte 13 (1919), p. 110, fig. 2.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 126; II, no. 136bis.
G. Cecchini, La Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia (Rome, 1932), p. 125.
F. Santi, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Dipinti, sculture e oggetti d'arte di età romanica e gotica (Rome, 1969), no. 126.

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