Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies.
Beaded border on 3 sides. Rounded trefoils.
Randall 1993: Flemish or Mosan, 3rd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Carved inscription in Flemish, in Gothic characters: 'DIE MOER M[IER] VRAUE TAN[N]JE TVOS INT JAER MCCCCLXXVIII' (the rest of the inscription is on the back of the left leaf and reads, in full: 'DIT GAF DONA[ES] DIE MOER M[IER] VRAUE TAN[N]JE TVOS INT JAER MCCCCLXXVIII' (Donaes de Moer gave this to Milady Tanne, the daughter of De Vos, in 1478).
Object Condition
Brown staining.
Comments
The other wing was in 2010 in a private collection in London. The two wings were separated at some point before 1927. According to Randall (1993), a diptych formerly in the Kofler-Truniger collection is a copy of the full diptych (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.69).
Provenance
John Marshall collection, Providence: given by him in 1927.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 118.
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