Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy: gold (hair, haloes, wings, along the hems, candlesticks, decorative pattern on the background, foliated decoration in the gables, etc.), green (lining of the angels' cloaks, architectural details), red; painted patterns including crosses, fleur-de-lys and decorative panels on the base.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Pinnacles carved in the round. Reverse of the centre panel decorated with an arch with pointed trefoil painted in gold outlined in black.
Label with handwritten inscription: '70 retable d'autel Ivoire'. Label with printed no. '3025'.
Remains of an octagonal red and white label.

Object Condition
Minor restorations on the top of the central gable and on some of the crockets.

Provenance
Collection of Michel Boy (b. 1845), Paris. Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne: sale 1906. Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), London and New York; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
A. Schnütgen, 'Elfenbein triptychon des XIV. Jahrhunderts im privatbesitz zu Köln', in Zeitschrift für Christliche Kunst, 1890, pp. 233-236.
F. Marcou, 'L'exposition rétrospective de l'art français', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 23 (1900), pp. 487, 489.
Kunsthistorische Ausstellung Düsseldorf, exhibition catalogue, Düsseldorf, 1902, pl. 79.
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p.31, no. 70, pl. LIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 122; II, no. 118.
The Pierpont Morgan wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (New York, 1929), p. 108, fig. 61.
J. J. Rorimer and W. H. Forsyth, The Medieval Galleries, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin XII (Feb. 1954), p. 143.
The Middle Ages. Treasures from the Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970, no. 71.
Medieval Art from Late Antique through Late Gothic from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, February-July 1990, no. 44 (C. T. Little).
Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, exhibition catalogue, The Detroit Institute of Art, 9 March - 11 May 1997 and Walters Art Gallery, 22 June - 31 August 1997, p. 85, fig. VI.9.
Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters, Kölner Meisterwerk aus den grossen Sammlungen der Welt, ed. by D. Täube and M. Verena Fleck, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, Schnütgen Museum, 4 November 2011-26 February 2012, no. 23 (C. Little).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 70, in relation to no. 8.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 61.