Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1350-1375.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges. Trace of a later hinges system with enlarged miters.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Outer edges slightly chamfered. Blue paper with inscription 'M...9 M...Webb [added]'. Incised inscription: 'S.'
Object Condition
Two holes on the inner side of each leaf at top and bottom.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London by 1862: 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. 80.
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. 6.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 90.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 201, 217, 223; II, no. 543.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 25, pl. XXIII.
Les Fastes du Gothique: le siècle de Charles V, ed. by F. Baron, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1981, no. 159, p. 198.
P. Williamson, Medieval Sculpture and Works of Art. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (London, 1987), p. 128, note 6.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 99.
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