Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy in the architectural details: red and blue-green.Traces of two medallions in the spandrels.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered. Soprintendenza label with inscription: '4935'. Two holes in the underside.

Object Condition
Two holes in the upper corners.

Provenance
Collection of cardinal Stefano Borgia (d. 1815); part of the collections of the Real Museo Borbonico which, in 1860, became the Museo Nazionale; transferred in 1957 to the Museo di Capodimonte.

Bibliography
F. Verde and G. Pagano, 'Guide pour le Musée royal Bourbon (Naples, 1832), II, p. 61, no. 1073.
A. O. Quintavalle, 'Medioevo ignorato. Avori gotici nelle pubbliche collezioni napoletane', in Crisopoli (1934), pp. 117-118, fig. 5.
Medioevo e produzione artistica di serie. Smalti di Limoges e avori gotici in Campania, ed. by P. Giusti, P. Leone de Castris, exhibition catalogue, Naples, Museo Duca di Martina, 1981, P. 106, no. II.7.
V. Tiberia, Il Museo sacro del Cardinal Borgia a Capodimonte (Naples, 1982), p. 166.