Side 1: Standing Virgin and Child; naked Christ; crown.
Side 2: Saint James the Greater with pilgrim's hat and staff; hat decorated with scallop shell.
Crosshatched background.
Dalton 1909: English, 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: English, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Stained brown.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Missing: upper and lower portions.
Stained brown.
Provenance
Found in London. Collection of Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks (b. 1826, d. 1897); British Museum, by donation, 1890.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum, (London, 1909), no. 256.
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