Dalton 1909: French, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, end of 1st quarter of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2011: French, 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side on the front of the panel.
Reverse
Carved on all sides.
Object Condition
Missing (front): lower right side; crown and hands of angels above the Virgin and Child.
Provenance
Found in the 2nd half of the 18th century in Cannock Wood (Stafford). Greene Collection, Lichfields (in 1784). Collection of Felix Slade (b. 1788, d. 1868); donated by him to the British Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
The Gentleman's magazine LIV (1784), p. 671, fig. 1.
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 258, pl. LXVII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 195, 211; II, no. 449.
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