Register 1: Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body).
Register 2: Three Holy Women at the Tomb, with angel seated on the tomb.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Dalton 1909: France, late 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: French, 2nd half of 14th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: French, late 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Green staining in the background and some on the shroud.
Reverse
Smooth and flat. Green staining. Label with ink inscriptions: '116' and 'W Webb'.
Object Condition
Pierced by four holes along a vertical line down the centre of the panel.
Provenance
Collection of John Webb, England (b. 1611, d. 1672). Collection of Felix Slade (b. 1788, d. 1868): donated by him to the British Museum in 1856.
Bibliography
O. M. Dalton, Catalogue of the Ivory Carvings of the Christian Era in the British Museum (London, 1909), no. 307, pl. LXV.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 336.
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