Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two missing hinges (?).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (spandrels, lining of garments).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Engraved inscription heightened with ink, in Latin (right wing) and Italian (left wing): Back of right wing, seemingly erased first lines, '[...] spirit[...] Signatum est sup[er] nos lumen vultus tui domine.Dedisti leticiam in corde meo:Deus qui nobis signatis lumine vultus tui domine memoriale tuum ad instantiam [?] beate veronice sudario inpressam ymagine tuam relinquere voluisti tribire/tribue quesumus ut nunc inter'.Back of left wing:'vergene maria preghiamote che tu et [?] chonciede che chomo noi veramente crediamo chella sia tua genetrice chosi sia nostra aiutatrice appreso di te per quel ne [?] desimo xpo. Amen.Sancti de dio preghate per la nostra salute e per quella ai [or di] tutti ralegratevi el segnore e fate [...] iusti. Amen'.

Object Condition
Missing: candles of the candlesticks on the left wing.
Holes along the inner edges.

Provenance
Wilhelm Metzler collection, Frankfurt am Main; acquired by the Museum in 1904.

Bibliography
H. Frauberger, Die Kunstsammlung des Herrn Wilhelm Peter Metzler in Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt, 1897), pl. 24.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 194, 203; II, no. 401.
Kunst und Kunsthandwerk des Mittelalters, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, February-April 1966, no. 239.