Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)

Object Condition
Holes for missing fittings.
The left border seems to have been trimmed.

Comments
Other panels from this casket are at the Bargello (Inv. 119 C), at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Inv. 17.190.194), and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Inv. 284-1867, 284a-1867 and 284b-1867). See related objects.
This panel would have originally been the front of the casket.

Provenance
Carrand collection: bequeathed by Louis Carrand (d. 1888) to the Museo del Bargello in 1888.

Bibliography
I. B. Supino, Catalogo del R. Museo Nazionale di Firenze (Florence, 1898), p. 235, no. 118.
E. Gerspach, 'La Collection Carrand au musée national de Florence', in Les Arts 32 (August 1904), p. 21.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 1280.
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 140-141 tbc).
B. Chiesi, Catalogo degli avori gotici del Museo Nazionale del Bargello (unpublished PhD thesis - Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2011), pp. 393-400.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 594-5, in relation to no. 179.
C. T. Little , ‘The Art of Gothic Ivories: Studies at the Crossroads,’ in The Sculpture Journal 23.1 (2014), p. 24.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 231, pp. 670-672, fig. 3-4.