Annunciation; dove of the Holy Spirit; vase of lilies. Visitation.
Pointed trefoils in the gables.
Dalton 1909: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of 14th century.
Paris 1991: Paris, 3rd quarter or last 3rd of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Smooth and flat. Printed red exhibition label: 'Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1857. Gooderich Court'. Inscriptions: '3' (in pencil), '34'. Printed label: '34'. Red wax from a seal.
Object Condition
Cracks in the top right corner.
Provenance
Collection of Lieutenant-General Augustus W. H. Meyrick (b. 1826, d. 1902): donated by him to the British Museum in 1878.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 290, pl. LXVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 207; II, no. 439.
Le Trésor de Saint-Denis, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1991, p. 278.
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