Foliated decoration.
Koechlin 1924: England, beginning of the 13th century.
Longhurst 1926: English, 1st half of the 13th century.
Museum's opinion 2014: England, c. 1100-1125.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Surface very damaged.
Provenance
Found in a coffin in Peterborough Cathedral in 1830 and believed to be the crozier of Abbot Alexander of Holderness (1222-1226). Donated by William Twopeny, Esq., in 1850 to the British Museum.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 247; pl. LXXX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 268; II, no. 774bis; III, pl. CXXIX.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), no. XLIV, pl. 39, pp. 37, 98.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 14.
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