Gothic Ivories Project | Triptych, 2 registers, 2 and 4 arches across (frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: Annunciation.
Register 2: Coronation of the Virgin.
Centre panel
Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: unidentified scene.
Wing, right
Register 1: kneeling man; standing queen.
Register 2: standing man; seated man (Annunciation to the Shepherds?).

Museum's opinion 2012: 19th century (following the unpublished opinion of Dr. Rudolph Berliner, 1952).

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. The reverse of the left wing has a pencil inscription: 'adoration des pèlerins d'Emmaus', 'P R F 2 H R', and a label with cancelled '31' replaced with 'no. 1'.

Comments
This triptych is in a wooden frame with 18.090, also in Providence.

Provenance
Collection of George A. Hearn (at least 1908-1918): his sale, 1918, lot 1002; gift of Edward J. Lownes to the Museum in 1918.

Bibliography
G. A Hearn and W. Staton Howard, The George A. Hearn Collection of Carved Ivories (New York, 1908), no. 13.
W. N. Bates, 'Archaeological news', in American Journal of Archaeology, 23-1 (1918), pp. 75-100 (p. 97).
'A Gothic Ivory Triptych', in Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design VI (July 1918, no. 3), pp. 25-27.

© Photography by Erik Gould, courtesy of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.
Credit Line: Gift of Edgar J. Lownes 18.089.

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