Attribution
Atelier of the Tabernacles of the Virgin (Koechlin 1905)

Hinges
Two sets of two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: along the hem of the Virgin's cloak, in the spandrels; painted halos.

Reverse
Flat and smooth, with some scratches.

Object Condition
Missing: columns; base around the feet of the Virgin; left hand of Christ; fingers and object originally held in the Virgin's right hand.

Provenance
Fau collection (wings only, as cat. no. 161). Charles Mège collection, Paris (wings reunited with the Virgin). 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
Exposition rétrospective du Trocadéro, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1889, no. 118.
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. II. L'atelier des tabernacles de la Vierge', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 34 (1905), pp. 453-471 (pp. 460-461).
G. Migeon, 'La Collection Mège', in Les Arts 86 (1909), p. 6.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 126, 127; II, no. 136.
M. B. Freeman, 'A Shrine for a Queen', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 21 (new series), no. 10 (June 1963), pp. 327-339 (p. 329, ill. 2).
R. G. Calkins, A Medieval Treasury: An Exhibition of Medieval Art from the Third to the Sixteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, White Museum of Art, Cornell University and M. W. Proctor Institute, Utica, 1968, no. 71.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 56, in relation to no. 5.