Inv. 71.267
Register 1: Virgil ridiculed in the basket, hanging from the battlements; revenge of Virgil: men lighting candles at the princess's behind.
Register 2: Alexander approaching Phyllis at the loom; Aristotle courting Phyllis.
Randall 1985 and Museum's opinion 2010: French (Paris), 1340-1360.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back recessed to receive the wax. Labels with inscriptions: '150' and '- IVORY. GOTHIC. - : FROM THE LIFE OF VIRGIL : FRENCH, SECOND HALF 14TH. CENTURY'.
Object Condition
Triangle of 5 holes in the right centre section of the panel (probably for later hanging).
The left side has been trimmed and the other corners notched, perhaps for hanging.
Provenance
Collection of John Lumsden Propert (b. 1834, d. 1902), London; collection of Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, London: sold, Christie's, London, 12-13 May 1902; bought by Henry Walters from H. Wareham Harding in New York in 1902; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 440.
The International Style: The Arts of Europe around 1400, ed. by P. Verdier, exhibition catalogue, Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, 1962, no. 4, p. 32, fig. 7.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 337.
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