Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

catalogue 458 20. Pieter Claeissens the Elder, wings with St Anthony and Abbot Wydoot . Closed: Lactation of St Bernard , c. 1557-1558 Inv. no. 0000.GRO1654.I Provenance: Collection of Amelia Margareta Buysse, niece of Nicolas de Roover, last monk of the Dunes Abbey, Koksijde. Purchased in 1971 at Sas van Gent with other art objects from the Dunes Abbey. Bibliography: De Vos 1982, 101-102. Panels: each wing consists of two elements arranged symmetrically. Frames: the upper rail consists of two pieces, joined to each other with slotted joints, mitred on both sides, and then joined to the stiles with mortise and tenon joints, with mixed cuts at the front and cut square at the back . Other joints are mortise and tenon, with a mixed cut in the front and cut square at the back. A strip of wood on the stile of the right wing with tracery towards the top as the shape of the barbe (see peg holes and unpainted edge here) helped to close the triptych. Attractive lock (original?). Hinges on the upper and lower sides replace the original ones at the same location (there are no other traces of hinges on the sides). The black and gold polychromy is overpainting.