Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on either side, possibly ring hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: red and blue (small windows over the upper arch; background).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges slightly chamfered.

Object Condition
Missing: part of the border to the lower right side; covered cup held by the left hand-side king.
Holes along the edges, some probably corresponding to lost hinges.
Body of the kneeling king abraded. Vase of lilies damaged.
Concave bow to the bottom border.

Comments
This panel originally was the inner left wing of a polyptych.
The style of figures is very similar to those on the West front of Wells Cathedral (see Williamson 1990).

Provenance
Collection of Mr John Durrell-Hunt, London: purchased from him under the bequest of the late Francis Reubell Bryan in 1933.

Bibliography
Victoria and Albert Museum Annual Review (1933), pp. 3-4, pl. I, b.
L. Grodecki, Ivoires français (Paris, 1947), p.95.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 15.
P. Williamson, 'An English ivory tabernacle wing of the thirteenth century,' Burlington Magazine, CXXXII, 1990, pp. 863-66.
P. Williamson, Gothic Sculpture 1140-1300, Pelican History of Art, (New Haven and London, 1995), pp. 114, 275.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 49.