Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: France (Paris?), 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two modern hinges.
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
On the back of the left wing, label with blue border: '424'.
Provenance
Collection of Jacques-Amédée Lambert: his bequest to the Museum in 1850.
Bibliography
On Jacques-Amédée Lambert, see: J.-F. Garmier, 'Le Goût du Moyen Âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art 47 (1980), p. 57 (where he is erroneously called Jacques-Antoine).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 186, 190; II, no. 361; III, pl. LXXXII.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 573-4, in relation to no. 167.
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