Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Several filled holes.

Provenance
Collection of Alexander Petrovich Basilewski (b. 1829, d. 1899), Paris (acquired between 1867 and 1870); in the Hermitage since 1885.

Bibliography
A. Darcel, A. P. Basilewski, Collection Basilewski. Catalogue raisonné (Paris, 1874), no. 108.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), p. 409.
A. Darcel, 'La collection Charles Stein', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 33 (1886), p. 115.
N. Kondakov, Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Ukazatel' otdeleniia srednikh vekov i epokhi vozrozhdeniia [Guide to the Department of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance of the Imperial Hermitage] (Saint Petersburg, 1891), no. 29, p. 154.
A. N. Kube, Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh. Putevoditel' po otdeleniiu srednikh vekov i epokhi Vozrozhdeniia [State Hermitage Museum. Guide to the Medieval and Renaissance sections] (Saint Petersburg, 1921), p. 9.
O. von Falke, 'Elfenbeinknauf in der Eremitage', in Mitteilungen des Museen Verbandes (1927), p. 60.
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh, Prikladnoe iskusstvo Italii v sobranii Ermitazha, exhibition catalogue, Leningrad [Saint Petersburg], 1985, no. 12.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Petersburg, 2014), no. 161.