Virgin and Joseph, with three Doctors (probably part of a larger group of Christ among the Doctors).
Koechlin 1924: English (?), 2nd half of 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Damaged and subsequently re-carved by a modern retoucher sometime between 1904 (when Koechlin saw it in Paris) and 1922 (see early photographs).
Provenance
Larcade collection. Saint-Germain collection: sold Paris, 29 May 1902, lot 5. On the Parisian art market in 1904 (Koechlin 1924). Major Astor collection, at Hever Castle (Kent): sale, Sotheby's, London, Hever Castle sale, 6 May 1983, lot 238.
Bibliography
E. Maclagan, 'Notes on the Panels from a Carolingian Ivory Diptych in the Ravenna and South Kensington Museums, and on two Fourteenth-century Ivory Groups, in Antiquaries Journal, 2 (1922), pp. 193-203 (pp. 199-201).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 41, 261, 262; II, no. 725bis.
M. Longhurst, English Ivories (London, 1926), p. 108.
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