Side 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Side 2: Carrying of the Cross with the Virgin helping Christ; soldier holding nails; soldier with winged hat; one of the Holy Women (probably saint Mary Magdalene) holding an ointment pot.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Incised trefoils in the gables.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: probably France, c. 1350-80.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two later hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Worn.
Two hemispherical pieces of modern ivory have been fixed into place to the right with three metal pins on the Adoration side. Trace of similar pieces now lost on the other side. Seevral holes plugged with ivory.
Comments
There are traces of hinges or mounts on the right side and holes on the left, suggesting that this panel may have been reused as the wing of a monstrance.
Provenance
Acquired from J. and M. L. Tregaskis, London, in 1899.
Bibliography
List of Objects in the Art Division South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1899. Arranged according to the dates of acquisition, with appendix and indices (London, 1903), p. 270.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 195, 209; II, no. 501bis.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 24, pl. XVII.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 576, in relation to no. 169.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 127.
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