Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks; angels praying.
Register 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.
Label with handwritten inscription: 'The Rev[eren]t Herbert Barnett / Bracknell Vicarage Berks. / Date 1330 AD. so given by M. Reed'. Labels with inscriptions: 'AN UPRIGHT SLAB, carved with the Coronation of the Virgin and / the Adoration of Magi, under canopies - of fine early Gothic / work - 5 1/8 in. by 3 1/8 in. Formerly the door of a triptych'. Round label: 'E. L. PAGET COLLECTION / 153'. Label with inscription: '80'.
Provenance
Collection of Reverend Herbert Barnett, Bracknell Vicarage, Berkshire. Collection of Mr and Mrs Ernest C. Innes (at least 1923-1935): Innes sale, Christie's, London, 12 December 1935, lot 48. Collection of E. L. Paget: sold, Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1949, lot 80. Dormeuil collection: sold, Dormeuil sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 19 November 2007, lot 1; private collection, London (in 2015).
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 117.
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