Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1530
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Object Number
AGOID.34208
Location
AGO, Gallery 108 Thomson European, Floor, East Display Table
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Open: 15.6 × 13 × 2.9 cm (6 1/8 × 5 1/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
Overall Closed: 147.5mm × 96mm × 39.4mm (14.7 × 9.6 × 3.9 cm)
Overall Closed: 147.5mm × 96mm × 39.4mm (14.7 × 9.6 × 3.9 cm)
Description
Adoration of the Magi in high relief (corpus); (top to bottom) Annunciation, Journey into Bethlehem, Nativity in low relief (left wing); (top to bottom) Presentation in the Temple, Flight into Egypt, Christ in the Temple in low relief (right wing)
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
ET TV BETHLEE'M IVD [below left wing]
IASPER MELSSIOR BALTISAR [below corpus]
FILI Q[UID] FECISTI NOB[IS] [below right wing]
ET TV BETHLEE'M IVD [below left wing]
IASPER MELSSIOR BALTISAR [below corpus]
FILI Q[UID] FECISTI NOB[IS] [below right wing]
Published References
Ellis, Lisa and Suda, Sasha (Eds). (2016). Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, 5 November 2016 - 22 January 2017. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario. [p. 58, 60, 61, 66, 68, 71, 86]
Camille de Roddaz, L'art ancien à l'exposition nationale Belge, Brussels, 1932: 244, fig. 4, 250.
Camille de Roddaz, L'art ancien à l'exposition nationale Belge, Brussels, 1932: 244, fig. 4, 250.
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 72
Provenance
Provenance
Comtesse d'Assche in 1880. Purchased by Ken Thomson at the Blumka Gallery, New York, 3 February 2000; Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Previous Owner(s)
Madame la comtesse d'Assche
Blumka Gallery