Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges (probably original).

Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive traces of polychromy: red and blue (architecture, clothes, etc. Traces of gilding (halos, architecture).

Reverse
No. '5' inscribed in black ink on the reverse of the left wing.

Object Condition
Broken around the hinges (repaired around the lower hinge on the right wing). Left part of the upper border of the left wing is chipped.Hole in the upper part of each wing. Small holes for clasp.

Comments
May have been commissioned on the occasion of the founding of a religious institution, hence the presence of a saint and a nun. In this case, the haloed kneeling saint could be saint Louis of Poissy (King Louis IX of France (b. 1214, d. 1270)); the nun could be Marie (b. 1285, d. 1372), his granddaughter, who was an abbess at Poissy.

Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1860; Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.

Bibliography
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 688.
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 6.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1979), no. 18.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 9, pp. 72-75.