Attribution
Unknown

Hinges
Traces of three missing hinges on either side.

Reverse
Flat and smooth; some crosshatching along the sides. Label with inscription 'V5526'.

Object Condition
Missing: head and left hand of the Child, part of the Virgin's crown, nose of the Virgin, right knee of the Virgin; upper part of the pinnacles.
Front very damaged.

Provenance
Demotte collection, early 20th century. Larcade collection, Paris. Joseph Brummer collection: Brummer sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 May 1949, lot 685 to the Wadsworth Museum, thanks to the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Note: the order of the early provenance has not been checked.

Bibliography
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 31.
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. 552, in relation to no. 158.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 53, in relation to no. 11.