Side 1: Pietà (Lamentation of the Virgin over Christ's body).
Side 2: Agony in the Garden (Christ at Gethsemane); apostles asleep.
Dalton 1909: Italian, 15th century.
Koechlin 1924: German (South), 15th century.
Robinson 2008: German, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of gilding and polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: part of Christ's head in the Agony in the Garden scene.
Comments
Three pierced holes in the base.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890): bought from him by the British Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 400, PL. LIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 347, 348, 350; II, no. 975; III, pl. CLXX.
J. Robinson, Masterpieces of Medieval Art (London, 2008), p. 44.
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