Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Alsace) or German (Black Forest), 1440-1470.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Engraved on all sides.
Object Condition
Missing: lock.
Provenance
Collection of Richard and Erna Flagg (in 1993): gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Flagg to the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 197.
L. Winters et. al, A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture (New York, 1999), no. 39.
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