Flight into Egypt; tree.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
Randall 1993: English (German workman or model), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Trace of one missing hinge on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (trees; patterned background; hair; beard; along the hems), red (reins; cross), green (grass).
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Remains of glued red fibre and paper.
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the gable and lower registers.
Comments
Other fragments have survived: another one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (64.27.19), one in the Musée Bernard d'Agesci (Inv. 914.1.137), three in the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (1960.3.54, 78 and 79) and one in Washington. This panel originally was the 3rd register of the outer right wing. To see how these fragments were originally arranged, see Randall 1993.
Provenance
Collection of Charles F. Iklé: bequest of Charles F. Iklé in 1964.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 182 (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 45f, pp. 58-59.
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