Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on either side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: halo, trefoil in the gable.

Reverse
Modern labels with inscriptions: 'VIII G/441', '441' (441 corresponds to the Wallace Collection catalogue number). Stain on the back with a pattern of Gothic tracery including two arches and a quatrefoil (traces of a mount?).

Object Condition
Missing: some crockets along the gable.
Background damaged to the left.

Comments
This piece was certainly originally the centre piece of a triptych.

Provenance
Collection of Sir Richard Wallace (by 1890).

Bibliography
E. Molinier, La Collection Wallace (objets d'art). Introduction by Lady Dilke (Paris, 1903 [-04])/A. L. Baldry, The Wallace Collection at Hertford House (London, 1904), p. 246.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl. XXXV.
A. Michel, L'histoire de l'art depuis les premiers temps chrétiens jusqu'à nos jours, 8 vols, 17 parts (Paris, 1905-1929), II, p. 480.
Catalogue of the Furnitures, Marbles, Bronzes, Clocks, Candelabra, Majolica,... Miniatures and Objects of Art Generally in the Wallace Collection, 6th ed. (London, 1910), no. 441, pl. 13.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 144; II, no. 229; III, pl. LVIII.
J. G. Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculptures, Marbles, Terracotas and Bronzes, Carvings in Ivory and Wood, Plaquettes, Medals, Coins and Wax-Reliefs (London, 1931 with 1981 supplement), no. 5.247, pp. 91-92, pl. 62.
D. Gaborit-Chopin, Ivoires du Moyen Age (Freiburg, 1978), no. and fig. 222.
S. M. Guérin, 'Tears of Compunction': French Gothic Ivories in Devotional Practice (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Toronto, 2009), p. 164, fig. 3-41.