Register 1: saint Michael and the devil; Crucifixion; Virgin and two Holy Women; saint John the Evangelist and onlookers; saint George and the dragon.
Register 2: saint Peter holding a key; Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit issuing from the mouth of God the Father; saint Paul holding a sword.
Tracery. Pinnacles. Pointed trefoils.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: radiocarbon dating showed a 95.4% chance that the elephant died between the years 1263 and 1377.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Reverse
Flat with some crosshatching.
Provenance
Collection of Prince Wallerstein-Oettingen, Wallerstein Castle, Wurtemberg (no. 103; in the collection before 1810). Private collection, London, in 2010 (bought from Rudigier, 12 June 2008).
Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (p. 137 n. 62).
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), in relation to no. 171.
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