Gaborit-Chopin 2003 and Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Comments
The work is inspired by ivories of the late 13th and 14th centuries. Ink inscriptions: 'A.108', 'S. 265'.
Provenance
Collection of Alexandre-Charles Sauvageot, Paris (no. 265); gift of A.-C. Sauvageot, 1856.
Bibliography
A. Sauzay, Musée impérial du Louvre. Catalogue du musée Sauvageot (Paris, 1861), no. 265.
A. Sauzay, Musée de la Renaissance [Musée du Louvre]. Notice des ivoires (Paris, 1863), no. 108.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires médiévaux, Ve-XVe siècle (Paris: Musée du Louvre, 2003), no. 294.
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