Four apostles and an unidentified man; saint Peter sheathing his sword after cutting off Malchus' ear (part of a Betrayal scene (Taking of Christ; Kiss of Judas)).
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 14th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: Northern French or Flemish, late 18th or early 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: Northern French or Flemish, late 18th or early 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat. Crosshatched.
Object Condition
Missing: nose of one apostle; fingers of a number of the figures; right forearm of saint Peter.
Comments
Possibly a fragment of a retable (see OA.1343 (Dalton 390), also at the British Museum) .
Provenance
Collection of Major Rhode Hawkins (b. 1821, d. 1884); British Museum, purchased through Christie's, 1885.
Bibliography
J. B. Waring, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Consisting of Examples Selected from the Manchester Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (London, 1858), p. 22.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 341, pl. LXXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 307-308; II, no. 846 quater.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148, fig. 13.
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