TRIPTYCH "THE ANNUNCIATION
FRAMED BY KING DAVID AND PROPHET ISAIAH" MANUFACTURED BY SAMSON & CO.
(France, 19th c.)
Magos Foundation Collection
Polychrome painted with gold highlights and enamels on paillon. Monogrammed shutters, ogival style carved wood frame, after the Orleans triptych master kept in the Orleans Museum of Fine Arts.
PROPHECIES OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT INDICATE, ACCORDING
TO THE INTERPRETATION OF CHRISTIANS,
THAT ONE OF THE MAGI WOULD
COME FROM ETHIOPIA.
“Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.” King David 68:32.
“The kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring their offerings; all kings shall bow down to him” 72:20 psalms of King David to Solomon
“They shall bring gold, the incense of Sheba” Isaiah 60:6.9.
“From the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia, my supplicants will bring my offering” Zephaniah 4:10.