Presentation in the Temple; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
Randall 1993: English (German workman or model), 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: pattern in the background.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Blue and white label with inscription; '3' (?).
Object Condition
Missing: gable.
Trimmed on all sides. Central hole in the upper part of the gable.
Comments
Other fragments have survived: two in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (64.27.19, 64.27.20), one in the Musée Bernard d'Agesci in Niort (Inv. 914.1.137), and three in the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento (1960.3.54, 78 and 79). This panel originally was the 3rd register of the outer left wing. To see how these fragments were originally arranged, see Randall 1993.
Provenance
Gift of John Gellatly in 1929.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 182 (Niort fragment of the same polyptych).
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 45d.
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