Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy or gilding: red or ground for gilding (clothes). More gilding was visible in Maskell's 1872 catalogue (patterns on the background, on either side of the central tree on side 1).

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
One of the thin teeth broken.

Comments
Ink inscription '76' on side 2.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 368 (bought Jacob). In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.

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. 145.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 87.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. L, p. 6.
F. Winter, Die Kämmer aller Zeiten (Leipzig, 1906), pl. 36, no. 107.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 214.