Wing, left
Register 1: Archangel Gabriel (part of the Annunciation scene continuing on the right wing).
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 3: Saint George and the dragon; princess praying.
Register 4: Unidentified veiled female saint holding a martyr's palm; unidentified crowned female saint holding a chalice; saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm.
Centre panel
Trinity; dove of the Holy Spirit; Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist with onlookers including soldiers in armour; sun and moon; two angels at the sides of the cross; skull of Adam at the foot of the cross. Death of the Virgin (Dormition); apostle holding a cross and situla (holy water bucket); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; angel closing the Virgin's lips.
Wing, right
Register 1: Virgin (part of the Annunciation scene continuing on the left wing).
Register 2: Sacro Volto of Lucca; kneeling figure playing a string instrument; cross.
Register 3: Unidentified bishop saint holding a crozier; saint Francis; saint Anthony.
Register 4: Virgin of Mercy; Virgin sheltering under her cloak four tonsured clerics kneeling in prayer.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels; beaded border; twisted columns.
Four Symbols of the Evangelists with scrolls in the spandrels: angel of saint Matthew, eagle of saint John the Evangelist; ox of saint Luke and lion of saint Mark.
Attribution Unknown
Hinges Traces of two missing hinges on either sides.
Provenance Collection of Carlo Micheli. Dr. L. de St Germain sale, Paris, 29-30 May 1902, lot 1. Collection of A. Finoelst: his sale, Brussels, 27 September 1927, lot 156, ill. 91.
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