Inv. 71.203
Coronation of the Virgin; Christ crowning the Virgin; two kneeling angels swinging censers; three angels holding a large cloth of honour; orb and cross.
Pointed trefoils.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (?), last third of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Object Condition
Two holes in the right side for cords and hole in the centre of the left side for securing the other tablet or tablets.
Provenance
Bought from or shipped by Léon Gruel for Henry Walters in 1914; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 315.
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. 586-7, in relation to no. 174.
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