Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two sets of two ring hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive gilding and polychromy (not original, but probably reflecting the original scheme): blue (Virgin's cloak), red (inside the Virgin's veil), gold (hair and beards, along the hems, crowns, decorated background with three-dot pattern; painted trefoils in the gables; architectural details, etc.).
Back of the centre panel painted with gilded patterns: crockets at the top and two bands of pseudo-kufic designs. Crack in the back disguised with painted foliage.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Painted with gilded designs; two bands of pseudo-kufic designs.

Object Condition
Missing: base and pinnacles (replaced).
Pedestal with intarsia work not original.
Underside with crosshatching. Tips of the inner wings made of a different piece of ivory. The left outer wing had two slivers of ivory added to its right edge (now lost).

Comments
Inscription 'H.6' on the sloped base of the pedestal (possibly a Heckscher number; see Provenance).

Provenance
Collection of E. Vaïsse, Marseilles: sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 5-8 May 1885, lot 2; Martin Heckscher collection, Vienna: sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 4-6 May 1898, lot 192; George Salting Collection, London: his bequest to the Museum in 1910 (no. 2060).

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ateliers d'ivoiriers français aux XIII et XIVe siècles. II. L'atelier des tabernacles de la Vierge', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 34 (1905), pp. 453-471 (p. 464, n. 1).
A. Michel, L'histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, 8 vols, 17 parts (Paris, 1905-1929), II, p. 476.
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 476.
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910)/Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture) (London, 1910), p. 92.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 126-127; II, no. 148.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 13, pl. VIII.
C. R. Morey, 'Italian Gothic Ivories', in Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, Mss., 1939), I, p. 192 (no. X). 196.
P. Williamson, 'Ivory carvings in English treasuries before the Reformation', in Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture presented to Peter Lasko, ed. by D. Brekton and T. A. Heslop (Stroud, 1994), p. 197, fig. 8.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 45.