Attribution
Rose group (Koechlin 1924)

Hinges
Remains of a clasp, now simply a small stub of corroded metal.

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy: green (upper borders of each scene; lining of garments). Earlier photographs show painted haloes and diapered backgrounds, as well as fluted decoration on the tomb.

Reverse
Flat and smooth.
Three labels with inscriptions, one legible '1436 [erased]. E.K.'

Object Condition
Two later holes in the upper part of the leaf.
A crack and minor loss in the upper border; a crack in the background of the lower scene.

Comments
The left wing is also in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (521-1893). See related objects.

Provenance

Bibliography
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), no.
E. S. Prior, A. Gardner, Mediaeval Figure-Sculpture in England (Cambridge, 1912), p. 372, fig. 427 (left leaf only).
R. Koechlin, 'Les Diptyques à décor de roses', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1918), p. 238, note 2.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Carvings in Ivory, exhibition catalogue, London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1923, no. 104, pl. XXXII (right leaf only).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 157, 161, II. no. 261 (left wing).
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 17, pl. XII.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), pp. 66, 70.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 77.