Gothic Ivories Project | Gabled triptych, 2 registers (Front)

Wing, left
Register 1: saint Peter and the Church (Ecclesia).
Register 2: Adoring Magi (part of the Adoration of the Magi).
Centre panel
Register 1: Christ in Glory with Resurrection of the Dead.; angels holding Instruments of the Passion; Virgin and saint John the Baptist kneeling.
Register 2: Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); angel crowning the Virgin; two angels holding candlesticks.
Wing, right
Register 1: Synagogue (Synagoga) and saint Paul.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple.

Ozenfant 1887 and Lille 1957: France, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side (modern). There may originally have been two sets of three hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. De Vicq label (no. 252). 1950s inventory label.

Provenance
Collection of Jules de Vicq, Lille (no. 252): his gift to the Museum in 1881.

Bibliography
A. Ozenfant, Catalogue de la Collection d'objets d'art et de curiosité composant le Musée Jules de Vicq (Lille, 1887), no. 39.
Exposition d'art ancien, exhibition catalogue, Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, November-December 1947, no. 20.
Musée de Lille : Guide de la Section des Objets d'art (Paris, 1957), p. 18.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 56, in relation to no. 5.

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