Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; saint Agnes with a lamb, book and martyr's palm; crown.
Crosshatched background; pointed trefoils; foliated border.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Hinges
Traces of two missing hinges on the right side.
Reverse
Label with inscription 'MA136'.
Provenance
Collection of Charles Gillot (b. 1853, d. 1903), Paris and his descendants (still in the Gillot collection, c. 1924). Sale, Christie's, Paris, 4-5 March 2008, lot 214.
Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 130-132, fig. 32).
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