Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
One hole on either side, possibly for hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (drapery), red (veil of the Virgin).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Crosshatching in the lower part of the panel.
Modern ink inscription: 'W. M' (for William Maskell), '6' or '61'.

Object Condition
Missing: head and shoulder of the angel on the left.
Fragmentary piece. Hole in the upper part and in the lower part.

Comments
Possibly from a small altarpiece. This piece is similar to the centre panel of a triptych or polyptych now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (71.211). Randall (1985) suggests that the two pieces probably came from the same area.

Provenance
William Maskell collection (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. 264.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 210 (in relation to no. 293).
J. Santrot and D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Le Don Seligman au musée Dobrée: un ivoire parisien du XIVe siècle', in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre (January 2011), pp. 43-55 (fig. 12, p. 49).