Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side (some repaired).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: painted trefoils especially in the spandrels.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Damages at the edges of the wings. Vertical crack down the back of the centre part.
Fine deep holes in the underside and crosshatching to secure onto a base. Two holes above back of the Virgin's head.
Missing: five pinnacles (two on either side of the central gable and one topping the gable; holes where they once were).

Comments
Unfinished in some parts

Provenance
Collection of E. Laborie, Paris: his sale, 1867, lot 100 (Catalogue des objets d'art et de haute couture du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes composant la précieuse collection de M. E. Laborie (Paris, 1867), no. 100); collection of Vasiliy L'vovich Naryshkin (b. 1841, d. 1906), Saint Petersburg, until 1871; donated to the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPKh); transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Collection V. Narischkin. Objets d'art (Paris, 1869), no. 103.
Ukazatel' sobraniiu khudozhestvennykh proizvedeniy, pozhalovannomu gosudarem imperatorom Muzeiu Obshchestva pooshchreniia khudozhnikov i podnesennomu gosudariu V. L. Naryshkinym (Saint Petersburg, 1871), no. 131.
Katalog Muzeia Imperatorskogo Obshchestva pooshchreniia khudozhestv (Saint Petersburg, 1904), no. 70, p. 429.
R. Koechlin, 'Les Ivoires gothiques', in A. Michael, Histoire de l'art depuis le premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, (Paris, 1906), II, p. 463.
Die erste Ausstellung der Eremitage, Reisenführer (St Petersburg, 1920), p. 15.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), pp. 9, 59.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 126-127; II, no. 144.
A. N. Kube, Reznaia kost'. Katalog [Ivory Carvings Catalogue Hermitage], (Leningrad [Saint-Petersburg], 1925), no. 88.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, L. Faenson, Westeuropäische Elfenarbeiten aus der Staatlichen Eremitage St. Petersburg 11.-14. Jahrhundert (Berlin 1974; Erbach 1975), no. 76.
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, Erbach, Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum, 6 April 1993 -6 January 1994, no. 3.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 70.