Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: painted trefoils in the spandrels. On the reverse: traces of a painted composition featuring a standing figure under an arch.

Reverse
Traces of a painted composition featuring a standing figure under an arch. Curved, centre panel slightly convex. Smooth.

Object Condition
Chipped at the back of the left wing. Three holes in the bottom. The upper part of the wings has been restored.

Provenance
Collection of Count Girolamo Possenti di Fabriano (in 1876; see Westwood 1876): sale, Florence, 1 April 1880, lot 42. Paul collection, Hamburg: his sale, Cologne, 16 October 1882, lot 554. Collection of Julius Campe, Hamburg (by 1900). A priest in Malters, Switzerland. Collection of Julius Leonz Muheim, Fluelen, Switzerland and thence by descent. Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris (before 1917; photographic evidence, see Bibliography). Sotheby's, New York, 29 January 1999, lot 41. Private collection, London (bought from Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 47).

Bibliography
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), Appendix, pp. 375-376.
Exposition Universelle de 1900, Catalogue illustré Officiel de l'Exposition Rétrospective de l'Art Français (Paris, 1900), no. 113.
Exposition rétrospective, Dresden, 1906, no. 1426.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 124, 125; II, no. 133.
E. Bertrand, Emaux Limousins du Moyen Age (Paris: Brimo de Laroussilhe, 1995), p. 6, fig. II (photograph taken before 1917 of Brimo de Laroussilhe's display).
P. Williamson, Medieval and Later Treasures from a Private Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2005, no. 26.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 54 and 63.