God the Father; Christ; angel; papal tiara.
Chevron border; crosshatched background.
Westwood 1876: Germany, 15th century.
Longhurst 1929: Flanders, end of 15th century (?).
Williamson and Davies 2014: German (Lower Rhine) or Netherlandish, 2nd half of the 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (angel's hair), black (hair and beard of Christ and God, eyes and eyebrows), red (mouths, wounds).
Reverse
Carved with concentric rings. Crenellations on the rim on the back.
Object Condition
Missing: part of the border on the left side; some crenellations on the back.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), by 1862, London: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
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. 143.
'Inventory of Art Objects acquired in the Year 1867' in Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 8.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 86.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 886 (`73.339).
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 41.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 188.
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