Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; two angels holding navettes and swinging censers.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple with Joseph holding a candlestick and a basket of doves brought as offerings; Christ standing on the altar between the Virgin and Simeon.
Incised trefoils.
Wyatt 1858: c. 1300.
Westwood 1876: French, c. 1400.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Wallace and Ó Floinn 2002: 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Hinges
Traces of two hinges on the left side.
Object Condition
Two holes in the centre above the upper quatrefoil. Three holes on the upper edge (left, centre and right).
Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century. One of these casts is now Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 246. See Cast image.
Provenance
Collection of John Lentaigne (b. 1855, d. 1915), Esq., surgeon, Dublin (at least 1876-1888): sold, London, Bennett, 29 February 1888, lot 442, to the Museum.
Bibliography
M. D. Wyatt, Notices of sculpture in ivory: consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel society, on the 29th June, 1855 (London, 1858).
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 487 ('54.70).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 317.
Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland - Irish Antiquities, ed. by P. Wallace and R. Ó Floinn (Dublin, 2002), no. 7:31, p. 272.
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