Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: Paris, 2nd quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges (repaired).
Reverse
On back of right wing: illegible label and inscriptions in pencil: 'S227', 'mol 89'.
Object Condition
Very worn.
Wrenching, pieces missing, and restorations around the hinges.
Stains.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 227); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Musée du Louvre in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 227.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 38.
E. Molinier, Musée National du Louvre. Catalogue des ivoires (Paris, 1896), no. 89.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 154.
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