Register 1: Resurrection; two angels kneeling on the tomb; tomb decorated with arches.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Medallions enclosing quatrefoils with protruding cones in the spandrels.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: France, mid to late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side and an indent for a clasp on the right.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Handwritten ink inscription: 'May 53 Wε/λ' and 'W. M' (for William Maskell).
Object Condition
Drilled hole in the upper border.
Comments
The left wing is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (17.190.192).
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890); British Museum, by purchase, 1856.
Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 461 ('55.35).
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 278, pl. LX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 167; II, no. 279.
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