Attribution
Master of the Berlin Triptych (Berlin Master)(Gaborit-Chopin; Randall)

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Remains of labels.

Object Condition
Missing: candlestick held by the angel on the right.

Provenance
Collection of Octave Homberg (b. 1876, d. 1941), Paris. Collection of Mme Homberg, Paris (until 1931). Collection of E. and M. Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (until 1965). Bequest by Laurence H. Favrot to the Museum in 1971.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 199, 202, 203; II, no. 411; III, pl. LXXXV.
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.67.
J. L. Schrader, 'Recent Acquisitions. An Ivory Plaque with the Virgin and Child in Glory', in Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Houston (May 1972), pp. 35-37.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), p. 211 (in relation to Berlin, Inv. 628).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 122.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 202-203, fig. 43-44a.
H. Krohm, 'Die mittelalterliche Elfenbeine' in KulturStiftung der Länder, Patrimonia 193 (2001), pp. 6-35, fig. 8.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 574-5, in relation to no. 168.