Register 1: Crucifixion; swooning Virgin supported by Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers holding scrolls; rugged cross. Resurrection; two angels standing on the tomb with hands in prayer.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation; pierced haloes.
Border of dentils. Trefoils in the spandrels.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French, probably c. 1370-90.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Smooth with raised border on the bottom and right side; traces of glue.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the column on the second register; the piece where the Virgin Annunciate stands seems to have broken away and been glued back into place. Virgin's halo chipped in the Annunciation scene.
Minor cracks.
Comments
The leaf must have formed a diptych within a hinged frame.
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. 88.
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. 9.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), pp. 93-94.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XXVII
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 186, 191; II, no. 376; pl. LXXXIV.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 20-21, pl. XVI.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 105.
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