Inv. 10.39
Coronation of the Virgin; two angels swinging censers.
Incised trefoils.
Randall 1993 and Museum's opinion 2010: North Italian, last quarter of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
The ivory is inset in a book cover (MS. W. 39). This was done when it was rebound by Gruel, a typical antiquarian habit of his workshop.
Provenance
Bought from Léon Gruel in Paris by Henry Walters before 1931; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
L. M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1989), p. 90, no. 39.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 212.
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