Standing Virgin and Child (Vierge glorieuse); Virgin holding a stem of flowers; saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; two angels crowning the Virgin.
Westwood 1876: France, 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), c. 1350-80.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding (later): background, hair and clothes.
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border (on three edges, as the upper part has been trimmed). Area once filled with wax in back is slightly discoloured.
Object Condition
The top, which was originally square, has been cut down.
Three holes, one in the upper part of the panel and two in the lower part of the panel, on either side, have been filled and to disguise the filling, covered on the carved side with heavy gilt paint.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862; purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 91.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 112.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 475 (`73.178).
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 28.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 590-1, in relation to no.177.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 124.
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