Death of the Virgin (Dormition); Christ holding the soul of the Virgin; apostles including saint John the Evangelist.
Border of dentils. Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, mid 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, mid 14th century
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border. Modern wax seals. Modern paper label with ink inscription: 'Charlton'.Ink inscription 'Death of Saint Anne'.
Object Condition
Two holes for suspension. Vertical crack along whole panel, previously broken into two pieces.
Comments
Close to Salzburg Museum, Inv. 20/32.
Provenance
Collection of Sir 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. 355, Pl. LXXXI.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 214; II, no. 520.
Meisterwerke aus dem Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum, ed. by A. Rohrmoser (Salzburg, 1984), in relation to no. 16.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 586-7, in relation to no. 174.
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