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Panels, 1 register; used as part of the binding of a book (Front cover)
Panels, 1 register; used as part of the binding of a book (Front cover)
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Subject
Religious.

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London, Victoria and Albert Museum

8-1872

Copper (clasps);ivory

Height: 48 mm (each)
Width: 35 mm (each)

Front cover
Sacrament of Communion; kneeling man receiving the Host from a priest; hanging curtain.
Back cover
Confession; man kneeling; throne.

Williamson and Davies 2014: German, probably middle of the 19th century.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Not visible; glued to the binding.
Inscription on the inside of the back cover, in ink: '11602 / BD' (probably an old shelfmark).

Provenance
Collection of John Webb, London; on loan from him from 1867; purchased from him in 1872.

Bibliography
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), pp.145-6.
A. Maskell, Ivories (Connoisseurs Library), (London, 1905), pl.xl,2.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 88.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 184.


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