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

Tournai, Museum of Fine Arts 675 The frame carries 7 times (!) the compass and plane, brand mark of the Brussels joiners’ guild. These brands are struck into the end grain of the joints: in the upper joints of the wings (4 marks), on the lower joints of the central frame (2 marks) and on the bottom outer joint of the right wing (1 mark). Originally there were two closing hooks on the stiles of the closed altarpiece, one above, one below (the latter has disappeared). Traces of hanging fittings remain on the back of the central part. The polychromy of the frame is original: black and gold on the inside, black on the reverse with various gold motifs and texts. Profiles of the frame of the central panel Profiles of the frames of the wings