Saint John the Evangelist holding an open book and a chalice; standing Virgin and Child; naked Christ; saint Catherine of Alexandria holding a sword; Mystic marriage of saint Catherine of Alexandria and Christ; Christ placing a ring on saint Catherine's finger; imperial crown.
Longhurst 1929: German, 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: German (Rhenish?), 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth, with 19th-century inscription: 'No. 204'.
Object Condition
Missing: upper border (the piece would originally have been a full medallion); upper part of the St. John the Evangelist's chalice is broken.
Green staining around the edges on the back (trace of a former frame).
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862; on loan to the museum from 1867; purchased from him by the museum in 1871.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 94.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 140.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 57.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 160.
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