Panel 1 Annunciation to Zacharias of the birth of saint John the Baptist (Randall 1993) or Annunciation to Joachim of the birth of the Virgin by an angel (?).
Panel 2 Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit.
Rosettes in the spandrels. Border of dentils.
Swarzenski 1929: Northern France, 2nd half of the 14th century.
Randall 1993: Tuscan, 3rd quarter of the 14th century (?).
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Panel 1: recessed to receive the wax, with a raised border.
Panel 2: circular recess on the reverse.
Object Condition
The Zacharias panel was broken in half and repaired.
Provenance
Passavant-Gontard collection, Frankfurt am Main (said to have been purchased in 1864): sale, Berlin, 5 December 1929. Collection of Robert von Hirsch: sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1978, lot 292. Private collection, New York (in 1993).
Bibliography
G. Swarzenski, Sammlung R. von Passavant-Gontard (Frankfurt, 1929), no. 74 and 75, pl. 15.
R. H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York, 1993), no. 211.
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