Side 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Side 2: Adoration of the Magi.
Foliated decoration; flowers. Roped border. Crosshatched background.
Randall 1993: French (Alsace) or German (Black Forest), 1400-1470.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: green (foliage; lilies), gold.
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Object Condition
Broken in two pieces and repaired with pins.
Provenance
Bought from B. Hein, Paris, in 1929.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 166.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 599-60, in relation to no. 182.
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