Annunciation; vase of lilies. Visitation. Nativity with the Virgin holding the swaddled child. Angel commanding Joseph to leave Judea. Flight into Egypt. Fall of the idols (miracle during the Flight into Egypt). Adoration of the Magi.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: England (?), mid-14th century.
Museum's opinion 2012: France, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy.
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: lid.
Worn. Holes. Deep vertical crack down the Fall of the Idols scene.
Provenance
Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan (d. 1913), New York and London; estate of J. Pierpont Morgan (1913-1917); gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 138; II, no. 233.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Pierpont Morgan Wing: a handbook by Joseph Breck and Meyric Rogers (1929), p. 110.
C. R. Morey, 'Italian Gothic Ivories', in Medieval Studies in Memory of A. Kingsley Porter (Cambridge, Mss., 1939), I, p. 188, no. XIV, fig. 8.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), p. 58.
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