Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 15th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, end of the 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: South Netherlandish, c. 1440-70.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on all sides. Underside has checkered patteron of plaques of bone and dark wood.
Object Condition
Missing: lower border (replaced with wood)
Two upper border strips loose and stored separately.
Provenance
Acquired by the museum in Paris in 1856 (£1.8s).
Bibliography
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 31.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 9.
J. von Schlosser, 'Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig', in Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 20 (1899), pp. 220-282 (p. 227, no. 58).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 527; II, no. 1324.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 55.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 236.
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