Museum's opinion 2011: 18th or 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Blue and white label.
Object Condition
The Virgin and Child is carved on a separate piece of ivory which is glued onto the rest.
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).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 65.
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