Register 1: Flagellation; Crucifixion; rugged cross.
Register 2: Herod ordering the Massacre of the Innocents; Miracle of the Cornfield.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels. Border of dentils.
Dalton 1909: France, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, end of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Smooth and flat. Inscriptions: 'W.M.' (x2), '116', 'Cay' (?), '4' (in pencil).
Object Condition
Two pierced holes along upper border.
Provenance
William Maskell collection (b. 1814, d. 1890) (no. 116): bought from him by the British Museum in 1853.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 306, Pl. LXIX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 189; II, no. 378.
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