Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Traces of glue. Handwritten reference to the 1836 Duncan catalogue.

Object Condition
Some cracks.
Hole in the upper and lower right corners.

Comments
The right wing of this diptych is now in the British Museum (1919,0710.3).

Provenance
Mentioned for the first time in the 1836 catalogue; Department of Western Art (WA1908.190); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
P. B. Duncan, A Catalogue of the Ashmolean Museum, descriptive of the Zoological Specimens, Antiquities, Coins, and Miscellaneous Curiosities (Oxford, 1836), no. 323.
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1863), no. 192.
National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds, 1868, no. 722.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 163.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 170, 171, 176; II, no. 331.
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. 159.