Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Inscription: 'JMV II.33'. Label with an engraving showing saint Martin and the beggar.

Object Condition
Missing: border partly broken.
Hole in the centre at the top.

Provenance
Collection of William Maskell (b. 1812, d. 1890). Collection of Frédéric Spitzer: sale, Paris, Chevallier-Mannheim, 17 April-16 June 1893, lot 86. Martin Le Roy collection (before 1906-1918 until at least 1924). Collection of Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot and heirs (1946-2011): sale, Christie's, Paris, Wednesday 16 November 2011, lot 23; collection of Bernard Descheemaeker, art dealer, Antwerp (De Forti Dulcedo, Bernard de Scheemaeker Works of Art, catalogue 9 (February 2012), no. 5).

Bibliography
La Collection Spitzer (Paris, 1890), I, no. 51 (Molinier).
R. Koechlin, Catalogue raisonné de la collection Martin Le Roy, Fasc. II: Ivoires et sculptures (Paris, 1906), no. 33, pl. XIX.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, pp. 376, 377, 382; II, no. 988; III, pl. CLXXV.
D. J. A. Ross, 'Allegory and Romance on a Mediaeval French Marriage Casket', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 11 (1948), pp. 112-142 (p. 117, pl. 29d).
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), p. 222.
M. Gibson, The Liverpool Ivories: late antique and medieval ivory and bone carving in Liverpool Museum and the Walker Art Gallery (London, 1994), p. 99.