Ivory;wax (for restorations).
Unidentified woman kneeling before Christ; disciples; onlookers. Christ and the adulterous woman.
Foliated decoration in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: German, late 14th century.
Egbert 1929: Italy, early 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: German, late 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right (?).
Reverse
Flat. Modern ink inscriptions: 'W' (for William Maskell) and '62'. Five drilled holes on left hand side.
Object Condition
Back very dry and cracked (probably burnt).
Missing: lower left corner, which has been restored with wax.
The hinges indents have also been filled with wax.
Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1814, d. 1890)(no. 62): 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. 389, Pl. LIII.
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 180, fig. 18].
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