Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Handwritten ink inscriptions: ‘539', '(catalogue of 1756)’ and ‘586 'Dr. Plot’s catalogue. Liber Decani Aedis Christi. Date 1691)’.

Object Condition
Black stain across central canopy arch.

Provenance
Probably collection of John Tradescant by 1656; at the death of John Tradescant the Younger (b. 1608, d. 1662), bequeathed to Elias Ashmole (b. 1617, d. 1692); given by him to the Museum in 1683; Department of Western Art (WA1908.189); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
'Liber Domini Decani Aedis Christi', The Book of the Dean of Christ Church, c. 1684-90 (Ashmolean Manuscript 8, fol. 33r, no. 586).
Liber Domini Vice-Chancellari, fols. 1-137, 'Catalogus Numismatum tum Antiquorum tum modern. A.A.A. quae Cl: Vir. Dns Elias Ashmole Musaeo suo Oxonij prima vice donavit. Anno 1683', The Book of the Vice-Chancellor, 1695 (Ashmolean Manuscript 11, fol. 232, no. 586).
'Liber Domini Aedis Christi Decani', The Book of the Dean of Christ Church, compiled by William Huddesford in 1756 (Ashmolean Manuscript 12, fol. 38r, no. 539).
P. B. Duncan, A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum, descriptive of the Zoological Specimens, Antiquities, Coins, and Miscellaneous Curiosities (Oxford, 1836), no. 322.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 163.
R. Koechlin, 'Ivoires gothiques connus antérieurement au XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'art chrétien, 59 (1911), p. 10 (offprint).
R. Koechlin, 'Quelques ivoires gothiques français connus antérieurement au XIXe siècle', in Revue de l'Art Chrétien 41 (1911), pp. 281-292, fig. 8.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 221, 223; II, no. 604.
A. MacGregor (ed.), Tradescant’s Rarities: Essay’s on the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683, with a catalogue of the surviving early collections (Oxford, 1983), p. 284, no. 235, pl. 118.
A. MacGregor, Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript catalogues of the early museum collections 1683-1996, pt. I (Oxford, 2000), p. 55, no. 586; p. 193, no. 539.
A. MacGregor and M. Hook, Ashmolean Museum Oxford: Manuscript Catalogues of the early Museum Collections, pt. II: The Vice-Chancellor’s consolidated catalogue 1695 (Oxford, 2006), p. 84, no. 586.
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. 176.