Inv. 71.210
Register 1: Presentation in the Temple; maid holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Register 2: Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French, end of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two missing hinges. Recut for later hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: blue behind the crockets; blue sky, green in the background of the lower scene.
Reverse
Engraved with a Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross, in an oval, with decorated borders including chevrons patterns (probably copied after a late 16th-century print).
Comments
The engraving would indicate that the ivory was still in use in the 16th century (Randall 1985).
Provenance
Bought by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 317.
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