Molinier 1904: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid-14th century.
Detroit 1997 and Museum's opinion 2012: Germany (Middle or Upper Rhineland), 14th century.
Attribution
Follower of the Atelier of the Master of the Berlin Triptych (Berlin Master)(Koechlin 1924)
Hinges
Two modern hinges.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: candlesticks.
Vertical cracks.
Provenance
Collection of Baron Albert Oppenheim, Cologne (until 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
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), p. 34, no. 77.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 198-199, 219-220; II, no. 566; III, pl. XCX.
J. L. Schrader, 'Recent Acquisitions. An Ivory Plaque with the Virgin and Child in Glory', in Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin. Houston (May 1972), p. 35 and p. 37, n. 8.
French Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama, Yokohama City Museum, 1989, no. 17.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 86-87, fig. VI-11.
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