Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round but lower relief on the back.

Object Condition
Missing: the heads of Virgin, one of the Holy Women and saint John the Evangelist (which must have been the figure to the left in the foreground). The three heads were replaced later, but were removed in 1923.
Holes to affix onto a background and to a base.

Comments
This piece was probably originally part of an extended scene of the crucifixion contained in a tabernacle.

Provenance
Purchased by the museum from Ms. Annie Morgan, London, in 1892.

Bibliography
List of Objects in the Art Division South Kensington Museum acquired during the Year 1892. Arranged according to the dates of acquisition, with appendix and indices (London, 1893), p. 50
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XL.
R. Koechlin, Histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, ed. by A. Michel, II (Paris, 1906), p. 499.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 347, 348, 350; II, no. 974; III, pl. CLXX.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 42, pl. XXXVII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 40.