Register 1: Coronation of the Virgin; Christ crowning the Virgin; two flying angels swinging censers.
Register 2: Presentation in the Temple; Virgin holding Christ; Simeon; Joseph holding a basket.
Wyatt 1858: c. 1300.
Westwood 1876: French, c. 1400.
Koechlin 1924: France, 2nd third of the 14th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Comments
A cast was made of this piece in the 19th century. One of these casts is now Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt and Conway Library, no. 246.
Provenance
Collection of John Lentaigne, Esq., M. D., Dublin (in 1876).
Bibliography
M. D. Wyatt, Notices of sculpture in ivory: consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel society, on the 29th June, 1855 (London, 1858).
M. D. Wyatt, Notices of sculpture in ivory: consisting of a lecture on the history, methods, and chief productions of the art, delivered at the first annual general meeting of the Arundel society, on the 29th June, 1855 (London, 1858), repr. after p. 14.
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 487 ('54.70).
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 174; II, no. 317.
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