Molinier 1904: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, beginning of the 2nd third of the 14th century.
Egbert (after museum's opinion) 1929: Northern Italy, c. 1325.
Morey 1939: Italy.
Museum's opinion 2011: France or Italy, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two sets of two hinges on either side (several broken and repaired).
Object Condition
Missing: upper part of the gable on the innermost left and right wings; lower left corner of the centre panel.
Broken around the outer right hinge.
Provenance
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
E. Molinier, Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim, tableaux et objets d'art (Paris, 1904), no. 76.
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.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XXXIII-XXXIV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 126-127, 133; II, no. 149.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 (p. 189, fig. 37).
C. R. Morey, 'Italian Gothic Ivories', in Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, Mss., 1939), I, p. 193, no. XIX, fig. 16.
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