Gothic Ivories Project | Centre panel with gables (fragment of a polyptych), 1 register, 3 arches across (colonnettes; tabernacle; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); two standing angels holding candlesticks; angel crowning the Virgin.

Koechlin 1924: France, end of 13th century or beginning of 14th century
Museum's opinion 2012: France, c. 1275-1300.

Attribution
Atelier of the Tabernacles of the Virgin

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side (possibly ring hinges).

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: haloes, trefoils in the spandrels, wings, lining of cloaks, red on the Virgin's shoe.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Missing: pinnacles.
Colonnettes are probably a later replacement.
Vertical strip to the right seems to have detached and been glued back into place.

Provenance
Collection of Georges Hoentschel (b. 1855, d. 1915), Paris: sold 1911; Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.

Bibliography
A. Pératé, Collections Georges Hoentschel. Ivoires, orfèvrerie religieuse, pierres (Paris, 1911), no. 34, pl. XXVII and note.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 130; II, no. 167.
C. Little, 'Ivoires et art gothique', in Revue de l'art, 46 (1979), no. 46, p. 61, fig. 12.
'Hainauer collection', in Gazette des beaux arts XXXIV (1985), p. 467.

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