Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (water) and red.

Reverse
Carved on both sides. Ink inscription on side 1: '1034'.

Object Condition
Missing: one larger tooth, replaced. Several small holes.

Provenance
Collection of John Charles Robinson (b.1824, d.1913): purchased by the museum from him in 1879.

Bibliography
List of Objects in the Art Division, South Kensington Museum acquired in the Year 1879 (London, 1880), p. 14.
G. Semper, Zeitschrift des Ferdinandeums für Tirol und Vorarlberg, III, vol. 40 (1896), no. 5, p. 176.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 68, pl. LVI.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (London, 1985), p. 232.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 100.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 260.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 524, in relation to no. 151.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 213.