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

Bruges, Our Lady of the Pottery Museum 497 8. Anonymous, Triptych of the Virgin and Child. Closed: painted blue-grey. Open: wings: St Elisabeth ; Sister Elisabeth Isegem , 1584 (date of execution of the wings) Inv. no. O.OTP0065.I Bibliography: Maertens 1939, 103-104, no. 76. Panels: one vertical board for each panel, with the central panel painted outside the frame. Frames: central frame rebated, side frames grooved. Slotted joints, mitred at the front, cut square on the reverse of the central frame, mixed on the closed wings. Two pegs at each joint of the centre frame. The joints of the wings are not pegged. The polychromy is largely overpainted. Inside the central frame, the discontinuous stylized pattern in gold is original.