Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat with vertical and horizontal scoring.

Object Condition
Missing: head of the woman on the right; top of the angel's wing, top left; top of pot, below right (all later replacements).
Pinholes for large ivory plugs. Large chip on bottom.

Comments
This piece is part of the same ensemble as Inv. 5075 and 5077, also in the National Museum in Copenhagen.

Provenance
Said to come from Odsherred. Bought from a farmer by Bang, district bailiff in Nykøbing, Sjaelland (Northwest Zealand); given by him to the Danish National Collection by 1839.

Bibliography
E. von Philippowich, Elfenbein (Brunswick, 1961), p. 12, fig. 8.
A. Andersson, 'The Holy Road of Skokloster and the Scandinavian Early Gothic', in The Burlington Magazine (March 1970), pp. 131-140 (p. 135 n. 5).
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 21.
N. K. Liebgott, Elfenben - fra Danmarks Middelalder (Copenhagen, 1985), pp. 42-45, fig. 37.
Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400, ed. by J. J. G. Alexander and Paul Binski, exhibition catalogue, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1987, no. 307, pp. 327-328 (N. Stratford).
J. von Fircks, Skulptur im südlichen Ostseeraum. Stile und Werkstätten im 13. Jahrhundert (dissertation Freie Universität Berlin, 2005), p. 45.