Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds; swaddled child.
Crosshatched background. Tracery in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: France, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Smooth. Red printed exhibition label: 'Exhibition of Art Treasures, 1857. Gooderich Court'. Printed label: '39'. Inscription: '23' (in pencil). Red wax, remains of a seal.
Object Condition
Some features worn.
Provenance
Collection of Lieutenant General Augustus W. H. Meyrick (b. 1826, d. 1902)(no. 1367): 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. 317, Pl. LXXII.
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