Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Upper back recessed slightly. Excavated section at the left, possibly to accommodate a light.
Label with inscription: '581'.

Object Condition
Three small pin holes in the back, now filled with ivory plugs.
Two large holes in the back close to the base.

Comments
Horse trappings and reins and saint's spurs made in silver-gilt.

Provenance
Hollingworth Magniac collection, Colworth, Bedfordshire, by 1862: sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 5 July 1892, lot 260; collection of George Salting, London: bequeathed to the museum in 1910.

Bibliography
J. C. Robinson, Notice of the Principal Works of Art in the Collection of Hollingworth Magniac, Esq., of Colworth (London, 1862), cat. no. 169.
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910)/Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture) (London, 1910), p. 96.
W. F. Volbach, Der heilige Georg: Bildliche Darstellung in Süddeutschland mit Berücksichtigung der norddeutschen Typen bis zur Renaissance (Strasbourg, 1917), pp. 57ff.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 351.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), pp. 56-57, pl. LI.
A. Schädler, 'Erbach im Odenwald, Elfenbeinmuseum. Ausstellung: Westeuropäische Elfenbeinarbeiten 11 bis 19. Jarhjundert aus der Staatlichen Ermitage Leningrad' (exhibition review), in Pantheon XXXIII, 1975, p. 348.
C. Theuerkauff, Die Bildwerke der Skulpturengalerie Berlin (Berlin, 1986), II: Die Bildwerke in Elfenbein des 16.-19. p. 333.
Images in Ivory. Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, ed. by Peter Barnet, exhibition catalogue, Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and Baltimore, The Walters Art Gallery, 1997, p. 294.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 33.