Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork oval pendant (ajouré) (Back)

Height: 40 mm (ivory only)
Width: 27 mm (ivory only)
Depth: 4 mm (including frame)

Coronation of the Virgin; angel crowning the Virgin; blessing gesture; orb and cross.

Leeuwenberg 1969: France ('Master of the Agrafe Forgeries'), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Warren 2014: probably France ('Master of the Agrafe Forgeries'?), late 18th-early 19th century, or c. 1400.

Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Reverse
Hidden by the frame. Handwritten ink inscription: ‘M.207’ (Mallett collection number).

Comments
Inscription on the frame: 'LAUDANTES [NENEMCANT] DOMINUM. ASSUMPTA EST MARIA IN COELUM GAUDENT ANGELI'.

Provenance
Collection of David Black, in 1935. Collection of John Francis Mallett; his bequest to the Museum in 1947; Department of Western Art (WA1947.191.207); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 139).
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 188.

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