Saint Catherine of Alexandria; emperor Maxentius; sword.
London 1923: French, 14th century.
Williamson 2002: Paris, c. 1320-1330.
Museum's opinion 2009: Paris, c. 1320-1330.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Julius Wernher (d. 1912), Bath House, London; collection of Lady Ludlow (in 1923); on loan to English Heritage and displayed at Ranger's House since 2002.
Bibliography
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 97, pl. XXX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 257, n. 1.
P. Williamson, 'Medieval Ivory Carvings in the Wernher Collection', in Apollo (May 2002), pp. 17-22 (p. 19, fig. 7).
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