Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy (pupils of Virgin in left leaf).

Reverse
Flat and smooth.

Object Condition
Vertical cracks.
Missing: candlestick held by the angel on the right, 'sword of compassion' that once passed from Christ's side wound (traces remain on breast of Virgin).

Provenance
In the possession of Prince Peter Soltykoff (b. c. 1801, d. 1889), Paris: his sale, Paris; John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London: 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. 78.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 7.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 122.
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXXIII.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), p. 164, pl. XXXII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 217, 222-224; II, no. 568.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 26, pl. XXII.
J. Gardner, 'The Ivories in the Gambier-Parry Collection', in Burlington Magazine, CIX (March 1967), p. 143.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), pp. 69-70, fig. 40, in relation to no. 8.
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. 584-585, in relation to no. 173.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 86.