Inv. AN2008.18
Entombment (Anointing of Christ's body), with Holy Women; two angels with hands in prayer; figures blowing trumpets.
Tracery; pinnacles.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France, late 18th or early 19th century.
Warren 2014: France, mid-14th century or later.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Not visible due to the frame.
Object Condition
Vertical crack at the right upper part. Missing: part of the right gable. For three out of the four figures at top playing instruments, the ends of the shawm are broken.
Provenance
Private collection, Dublin. Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1943, lot 12; collection of John Francis Mallett; his bequest to the Museum in 1947; Department of Western Art (WA1947.191.208); 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. 142).
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. 179.
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