Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin.
Register 2: Deposition with the Virgin holding Christ's hand; saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; man with pincers removing the nail from Christ's feet.
Dalton 1909: English, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French (?), 1st half of the 14th century.
London 1987: English (?), late 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2011, English or French, early 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Pierced by four holes.
Object Condition
Border is broken round top of arch. Pincers partly broken.
Provenance
Collection of A. W. Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897); donated by him to the British Museum in 1888.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 243, Pl. LIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 209.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), no. LIX, pp. 104-105.
Art of the Courts of France and England from 1259-1328; L'Art et la cour: France et Angleterre 1259-1328, exhibition catalogue, Ottawa, Galerie nationale du Canada, 1972, no. 70, pl. 95.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 27.
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander and Paul Binski, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, p. 110, fig. 73.
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