Register 1: Adoration of the Magi.
Register 2: Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Pointed trefoils in the spandrels.
Museum's opinion 2010: Netherlandish or German (Rhineland), last third of the 14th century.
Lowden 2013: North French, c. 1325-1350?
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Scratched.
Object Condition
Recessed at the back for wax. Several drill holes.
Provenance
Thomas Gambier Parry, Highnam Court (Gloucestershire)(d. 1888): bought before 1860; Sir Hubert Parry (d. 1918), his eldest son (from 1888); Ernest Gambier-Parry (d. 1936), half-brother of Hubert (from 1918); Mark Gambier-Parry (d. 1966), youngest son of Ernest (from 1936); bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute Galleries in 1966.
Bibliography
The Gambier-Parry Collection. Provisional Catalogue (London, 1967), no. 3.
General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (London, 1979), no. 16, p. 12.
J. Lowden, Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery (London, 2013), no. 13, pp. 84-86.
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