Register 1: Crucifixion with the Virgin and saint John the Evangelist.
Register 2: Three Holy Women at the Tomb; angel seated on the tomb; angel pointing at the empty tomb; ointment pots.
Dalton 1909: English, late 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: English, 1200-1250.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Smooth and flat. Pierced with holes. Paper labels with modern ink inscriptions; 'crucifixion & entombment Probably 12th century', 'Royal Archaeological Institute 30', '1876, Franks thinks this is the beginning of the 13th century. Probably he is right. Compare the sculpture built into one of the houses in the College at Durham.'
Object Condition
Very worn. Two holes in the centre in the upper and lower part of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of Augustus Wollaston Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897); British Museum, by donation, 1894.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 242, pl. LVI.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), no. LII, pp. 43, 101.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 24.
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