Inv. 71.228
Angel entering a building (possibly part of an Annunciation).
Border of dentils; pierced trefoils.
Leeuwenberg 1969: France (?), last quarter of the 18th century to 1st half of the 19th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: North French or Flemish (?), 15th or 19th century.
Attribution
Master of the Agrafe Forgeries (Leeuwenberg 1969)
Comments
Part of the same ensemble as Inv. 71.222-71.227, and 71.229, also in Baltimore. See related objects.
Provenance
Bought together with 71.222-71.227, and 71.229 in Paris in 1923 by Henry Walters; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Bibliography
J. Leeuwenberg, 'Early Nineteenth-Century Gothic Ivories', in Aachener Kunstblätter, 39 (1969), pp. 111-148 (pp. 125-127, fig. 27).
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