Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: French, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), about 1340.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two modern hinges.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered. Inscription '79'.
Object Condition
A portion of the border has broken away on the right leaf by the lower hinge.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889): his sale, Paris, Drouot, 8 April 1861, lot 247; purchased by John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London: 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. 79.
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. 7.
A. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 121.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 202, 218, 219, 222, 223; II, no. 544.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, II (London, 1927), p. 26, pl. XIX.
J. Santrot and D. Gaborit-Chopin, 'Le Don Seligman au musée Dobrée: un ivoire parisien du XIVe siècle', in La Revue des musées de France. Revue du Louvre (January 2011), pp. 47, 49, 52-53, fig. 19 (left wing).
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), p. 70, in relation to no. 8.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 87.
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