Saint George and the dragon; princess holding the dragon on a leash; horse.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: probably English, 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: red ground and gold cross (?) (shield).
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Later base made of an ivory tension screw from a spinning wheel.
Provenance
Collection of Rev. Walter Sneyd (b. 1809, d. 1888), Keele Hall Staffordshire: Keele Hall Heirlooms Sale, Christie's, London, 7 July 1902, lot 49 (bought Ready). Collection of Mrs. Percy Macquoid, London, by 1923. Collection of Canon Lewis Gilbertson, Rector of St Martin's Church, Ludgate Hill, London: bequeathed to the museum by Mrs. Gilbertson (d. 1940), in memory of her husband in 1940.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 92, pl. XXVIII.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 33.
R. Randall, 'Jan van Eyck and the St. George Ivories', in the Walters Art Gallery Journal, 39 (1981), p. 39.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 30.
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