Life of saint Margaret of Antioch. Margaret's nurse teaching the saint and other girls; Olibrius, prefect of Antioch, meets saint Margaret spinning beside her flock of sheep; hares running into their holes; Olibrius or one of his huntsmen kneeling before Margaret; spear; trees.
Diapered background with quatrefoils. Incised trefoils. Pilasters.
Meyrick 1836: Around the start of the reign of Edward III (1327).
Randall 1993: Flemish, 1380-1410.
Williamson and Davies 2014: Flanders, c. 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Object Condition
Two sections of ivory inset where the hinges originally were, and one section of ivory insets where the hasp was (more visible from the back). Pierced with two holes in the upper border, and two holes in the dividing pilasters (for the missing handle).
Comments
Another panel from this casket is now in the British Museum (Inv. 1878,1101.41 (Dalton 372)), as was established by Randall in 1993. See related objects.
Provenance
Collection of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, Goodrich Court, Hertfordshire (by 1838). Henry Walters collection, New York (before 1931): his sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1 May 1941, lot 1047. Collection of John Davis Hatch, Jr., Lenox, Massachusetts: gift of John Davis Hatch, Jr. in 1978.
Bibliography
S. R. Meyrick, 'The Doucean Museum', in Gentlemen's Magazine (April 1836), p. 384, no. 16.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 160.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 169.
All images on this website are made available exclusively for scholarly and educational purposes and may not be used commercially.
