Trinity; God the Father holding Christ on the cross; Gnadenstuhl (Throne of Mercy); dove of the Holy Spirit; angels holding Instruments of the Passion (nails; spear).
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: North French or Flemish, 14th-15th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of 15th century.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Wood backing in an ivory frame. Inscription: 'W. M' (for William Maskell).
Object Condition
Missing: right arch of the canopy, and upper left corner.
Comments
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890): bought from him by the Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 311, pl. LXX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 330; II, no. 855.
R. Berliner, Die Bildwerke des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums, IV. Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein, Knochen, Hirsch- und Steinbockhorn, mit einem Anhange: Elfenbeinarbeiten der Staatlichen Schlossmuseen in Bayern (Augsburg, 1926), p. 17, in relation to no. 37.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p.139).
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