Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled polyptych (tabernacle) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: angel praying; angel holding two crowns.
Register 2: Visitation. Annunciation; vase of lilies.
Register 3: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Seated Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a flower in her right hand; angel crowning the Virgin; clouds.
Wings, right
Register 1: angel holding two crowns; angel praying.
Register 2: Nativity with Joseph holding Christ.
Register 3: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ.

Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Tardy 1966: Paris, mid 14th century.
Maurice 1983 and Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), mid 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (hair); green (spandrels; flower held by the Virgin; Joseph's tunic); blue (Virgin's robe); red (architectural details; mouths).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: canopy and supporting colonnettes of the centre part. In 1924, the polyptych was mounted in a wooden frame (Koechlin suggest it was possibly done in the 18th century).

Provenance
Collection of Anthelme and Edma Trimolet: donated by them to the Museum in 1878.

Bibliography
E. Gleize, Catalogue descriptif des objets d'art formant le musée Anthelme et Edma Trimolet (Dijon, 1883), no. 343.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 125, 126, 128; II, no. 146.
Tardy, Les Ivoires (Paris, 1966), p. 33.
B. Maurice, Quelques recherches sur les ivoires du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, unpublished Mémoire de maîtrise de l'Université de Dijon, 1983, no. 17.

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