Register 1: Adoration of the Magi; attendant with horses and whip; architecture.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; musician shepherd holding a shawm; swaddled Christ; Joseph warming himself by a pot; hanging lamp; sheep.
Incised trefoils.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Germany (Rhine or Meuse), c. 1370-1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Central hole in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
Probably in the collection of Edmund Waterton of Walton Hall, West Yorkshire, by 1862; George Salting collection, London, by 1909: his bequest to the museum in 1910.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 242 (as property of Edmund Waterton).
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910) / Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture) (London, 1910), p. 90
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 21.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 130, see also no. 134.
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