Circumcision conflated with the Presentation in the Temple; Anna the Prophetess holding a basket of doves brought as offerings; Adoration of the Magi; hanging purse.
Crosshatched background.
London 1923: German (Rhenish?), 15th century.
Longhurst 1929: Flanders or possibly Germany, end of the 15th century.
Aylesbury 1995: probably Germany, late 15th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: probably Netherlandish, about 1450-70.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Recessed along three edges at the back.
Object Condition
Missing: top right corner.
Border chipped and pierced with several holes for fittings (missing).
The lower part of the panel has split and is secured with conservation tape.
Provenance
Collection of Mrs Mary Margaret Elizabeth Cowell, by 1923: her bequest to the museum in 1925.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 160.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 43-44, pl. XLI.
We Three Kings. The Magi in Art and Legend, exhibition catalogue, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum, 25 October 1995 to 21 January 1996, no. 18.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 176.
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