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

Bruges, Our Lady of the Pottery Museum 499 9. Anonymous, Triptych of the Adoration of the Sheperds . Closed: Annunciation. Open: wings: St William of Maleval ; Portrait of a Female Religious , 16th century Inv. no. O.OTP0108.I Bibliography: Maertens 1939, 108-109, no. 96. Panels: central panel: two horizontal boards, painted outside the frame. Wings: a single vertical board, slotted into the groove of the frame. Frames: the central frame has a cornice and base. It is rebated, while the wings of the frames are grooved. Slotted joints, with two pegs each, mitred on inside, cut square on outside. The polychromy is redone, the bottom rail of the right wing carries the cursory mention: “Ecole de Pourbus”.