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London, The British Museum

1900,1013.1 (Dalton 328)

Ivory

Height: 48mm
Depth: 10mm

Two standing Magi (part of an Adoration of the Magi).

Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 1250-1275.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat. Crosshatching, pierced with a hole (not through the thickness of the panel).

Object Condition
Fragment, possibly cut from a diptych. Back pierced with a hole.

Comments
Related to 1900,1013.2 (Dalton number 328) from the British Museum collection.

Provenance
Bought by the museum from Fenton and Sons Ltd in 1900.

Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 328, Pl. XCIII.

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