Side 1: two knights kneeling before a queen who presents them with helms; men holding spears; trees.
Side 2: fighting animals; unidentified animal attacking a unicorn; knight in armour fighting a lion with a sword; shield; trees.
Egbert 1929: Italy (Venice or Veneto), c. 1400.
Museum's opinion 2011: France? or Italy (Venice)?, 13th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy: gold (decorative pattern on the background; trees; hair), green (?) (trees).
Reverse
Carved on both sides.
Provenance
Transferred in 1847 from the k.k. Münz- und Antikenkabinett.
Bibliography
J. von Schlosser, 'Die Werkstatt der Embriachi in Venedig', in Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 20 (1899), pp. 220-282 [p. tbc].
D. D. Egbert, 'North Italian Gothic Ivories in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican Library', in Art Studies 7 (1929), pp. 168-207 [p. 183, fig. 28].
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, p. 526, in relation to no. 151.
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