Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
Missing: Lower right corner, replaced with new ivory. Several verticle cracks at the sides.

Provenance
Jules Soulages collection in 1857, Paris and Toulouse. Acquired by the museum in 1859.

Bibliography
J.C. Robinson, Catalogue of the Soulages Collection; being a descriptive inventory... exhibited to the Public at the Museum of Ornamental Art, Marlborough House (London, 1856), no. 287.
Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, collected at Manchester in 1857, exhibition catalogue, 1857, no. 287.
Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1859. Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 32.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 23.
G. Semper, Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg, III, vol. 40 (1896), p. 177, no x.7.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XVI.
F. Winter, Die Kämmer aller Zeiten (1906), pl. 36, no. 106.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 68, pl. LVII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 211.