Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks near point. Ears of lions chipped.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889), by 1851: sold, Paris, Drouot, 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29 April and 1 May 1861, lot 383; purchased at this sale by John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London; purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.

Bibliography
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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. 152.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 12.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 117.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 61, pl. LVIII.
C. R. Beard, ‘Gravoirs and Knife-Hafts; a 19th-Century Fake Exposed’, in Connoisseur 101 (1938), pp. 171-175, no. I.
J. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues. European Arms and Armour, Vol. 2, Arms (London, 1962), p. 431.
L. Martini and C. Rizzardi (eds.), Avori bizantini e medievali nel museo nazionale di Ravenna (Ravenna, 1990), p. 107.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 221.