Museum's opinion 2009: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Single modern hinge. Three holes visible on the inner side of the right wing.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: architectural details, hair, key, hems, etc.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Darker border along the outer edges.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the lower border of the right wing.
The right wing is broken in two pieces along a vertical axis. Three holes in the outer edge of both right and left wings. Hole in the upper edge of each wing for suspension.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.
Bibliography
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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