Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Polychromy on the wood: blue with gold stars, flowers, fleur-de-lis; red (quatrefoils)

Reverse
Label with handwritten inscription: 'Exp. de Paris, no. 68'.

Object Condition
Both wings drilled on top exterior.Missing: lower border of the left wing; lower part of the outer border broken on the left wing.

Comments
The compartments around the central groups probably originally held relics wrapped in cloth with identifying labels attached and covered by glass panels (grooves on the inner edges). For the same system of enclosing reliquaries, but in verre églomisé, see The International Style: The Arts of Europe around 1400, ed. by P. Verdier, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 1962, no. 100 and 101.

Provenance
Collection of Émile Théodore, Director of the Musée des Beaux Arts of Lille. Collection of Aimé Desmottes, Paris: his sale, Paris, Drouot, 19-23 March 1900. Collection of N. McClue. Christie's, London, 6 December 1988, lot 12.