Maskell 1872: German.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st third of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: French, 1st half of the 14th century.
Porter 1974: English.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (probably Paris), c. 1280-1300.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Two hinges.
Polychromy - Gilding
Faint traces of polychromy: chevron pattern on the torturer's leggings to the left.
Reverse
Flat and smooth. Longer edges chamfered. 19th-century ink inscription on the back of the left wing: 'Mathäus Probieff, Major, Corps Reuss, Titiofscher Jäger Regiments'. Illegible inscription on the back of the right leaf.
Object Condition
Vertical break down the right side of the left leaf, which has caused the loss of the lower right corner.
Missing: upper left corner of the right leaf and lower right corner of the left leaf (both later replacements).
Provenance
Mathäus Probieff, Major, Corps Reuss, Titiofscher Jäger Regiments (see inscription on the back), probably the corps commanded by Prince Heinrich XV of Reuss-Plauen in 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition. Purchased from a Mr Evans in Paris by the Museum in 1865.
Bibliography
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. 16.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 75.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 152; II, no. 246.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 16, pl. IV.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 41.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 70.
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