Side 1: Herod holding a sceptre.
Side 2: Salome holding a dish with the head of saint John the Baptist; fashionable dress; necklace.
Foliated decoration.
Longhurst 1929: North French or Flemish, 1st half of the 16th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French or South Netherlandish (Bruges?), c. 1530-40.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Pierced vertically for suspension.
Provenance
Collection of Ralph Bernal, MP, 93 Eaton Square, London (b. 1783, d. 1854): his sale, Christie's, London, March 1855, lot 1641; bought by the Museum at this sale.
Bibliography
'Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1855', in Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition (London, 1868), p. 67.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 7.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 70, pl. LXV.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 165 (see also no. 164).
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