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

catalogue 624 2. Anonymous, Calendar Dial , c. 1500 Inv. no. S/4/O Provenance: V. Demunter bequest, 1938. In the Museum since 1976. Bibliography: Crab 1977, 185; Dainobu 1980. Panel: five vertical boards, butt-joined with dowels (visible on the X-radiograph). A barbe and unpainted edge tell us the panel was painted in the frame. On the reverse, a semi-circular recess has been cut to half the depth of the panel, with a diameter of 49 cm. Various other pieces of wood have been inlaid. These recesses seem to have been made in order to place a clock movement. Frame: originally grooved; the back cheek of the groove has been sawn to extract the painting. The joints are difficult to observe following various interventions; the bottom rail is a replacement. Mitred at the front, cut square on the back; with a single peg reinforcing each join. The polychromy has been removed except for a small segment in the cavetto of each of the three original frame members.