Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of polychromy and gilding: fleur-de-lys pattern on the Virgin's cloak.

Reverse
Carved on both sides.

Object Condition
The lower part, below the volute, is carved from a separate piece of ivory.
Missing: left hand of Christ.
Vertical cracks on both sides of the upright section of the volute.
Underside scored for adhesion to a lower section.

Provenance
Collection of Prince Petr Soltykoff, Paris: sold, Drouot, Paris, 8 April 1861, lot 202bis; bought by John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London: 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. 115.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 8.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), pl. XLII.
Middleton, Building News, 23 February 1894, p. 245, pl. on pp. 260-61.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), pl. XLII.
W. W. Watts, Catalogue of Pastoral Staves, Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 1924), no. 22, pl. 14.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 269, 271, 274; II, no. 760; III, pl. CXXV.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 34.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by P. Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, pp. 165, 166.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 147.