Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two standing angels holding candlesticks (partly missing).
Register 2: Death of Judas (Judas hanging); three Holy Women at the Tomb with shrouded body of Christ.
Register 3: Betrayal (Taking of Christ); Saint Peter cuts Malchus' ear; soldier holding a lantern.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1275-1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the left side.
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold, blue, green, red (clothes of the Virgin, head-dressed of he Holy Women, tree, lining of clothes, haloes, etc.).
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Missing: lower left corner; candles held by angels partly broken; feet of Judas.
Vertical crack running the whole length of the panel.
Two central holes in the upper part of the panel.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London (by 1862): purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 86.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), no. 239-67.
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. 502.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 152; II, no. 248.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 17, pl. XII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 69.
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