Noli me tangere; tree.
Medallions containing trefoils enclosing protruding cones in the spandrels.
Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: France, before 1856.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.
Reverse
Inscription in ink: 'SAUV. 246', 'A. 46', 'Invent. 110'.
Object Condition
Hole for a closing hook on the right.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 246); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot to the Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 246.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 46.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 289.
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. 613-14, in relation to no. 190.
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