Register 1: Entombment (anointing of Christ). Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb with hands in prayer.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi. Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Border of dentils.
Schnitzler, Volbach, Bloch 1964: France, c. 1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Object Condition
Central hole at the top of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Col. Sir Francis Elphinstone Dalrymple: Sotheby's, London, 16 December 1955, lot 42. Collection of Ernst and Martha Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (by 1964).
Bibliography
H. Schnitzler, F. Volbach, P. Bloch, Skulpturen, Elfenbein, Perlmutter, Stein, Holz Europäisches Mittelalter, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, 2 vols (Lucerne, 1964), no. S.98, p. 29.
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