Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Two hinges (one broken, one missing).

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Some wood residues glued to the back (it was once pasted onto a wooden plaque). Chamfered along the inner side.

Object Condition
Broken around the lower hinge (repaired on the right wing with a strip of ivory). Vertical crack down the right wing.

Provenance
First mentioned by De Rossi between 1878 and 1894 (see G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 313r, no. 1098).

Bibliography
G. B. De Rossi, Catalogo del Museo Sacro Vaticano, dictated by G. B. De Rossi, written by Mons. C. Stornajolo [Rome, after 23 October 1878 - before 20 September 1894]; Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Arch. Bibl. 66a, f. 313r, no. 1098.
R. Kanzler, Gli avori dei musei profano e sacro della Biblioteca Vaticana (Rome, 1903), II, no. 68, pl. XIX.
A. Rossi, 'Les Ivoires gothiques français du Vatican', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1905, I, p. 395 (mirror image).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 212, 220, 223; II, no. 472.
C. R. Morey, Gli oggetti di avorio e di osso del Museo Vaticano (Vatican City, 1936), p. 83, no. A99, pl. XXVI.
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, pp. 94-95.