Calkins 1968: French, mid or 2nd half of 14th century.
Randall 1993: Flemish (?), 1380-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges.
Object Condition
Two later holes drilled in the upper inside corners of the panels.
Provenance
Collection of Professor A. Gilbert, Paris: sale, Drouot, Paris, 29-30 November, 1 December 1927, lot 67. Collection of Robert H. Tannahill, Detroit: given by him to the Institute in 1943.
Bibliography
The Seventh Loan Exhibition of French Gothic Art of the Thirteenth to Fifteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1928, no. 59.
F. W. Robinson, 'An Ivory Diptych', in Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 22 (February 1944), p. 40 (with ill. on p. 41).
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 75.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 158.
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