Attribution
Unknown

Polychromy - Gilding
Traces of gilding and polychromy.

Reverse
Curved, pulp cavity visible. Back of the right-hand-side king flat and smooth.

Object Condition
The head of the central figure broke and has been glued back into place; the base has been restored and there are traces of a mount; the crowns are chipped.
Several holes, some plugged with ivory or wood.

Provenance
Possibly in the Goldschmidt collection, Frankfurt-am-Main, c. 1875. Collection of Stepan Nikolaevich Mitusov (b. 1847; d. 1922 (?), Saint Petersburg: his sale, 1897, lot 45 (Katalog kollektsii predmetov iz slonovoi kosti S. N. Mitusova (Saint Petersburg, 1897), no. 45); collection of the Museum of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts (Muzei OPkh); transferred to the Hermitage in 1919.

Bibliography
Christliche westeuropäische Elfenbeinkunst 13.-18. Jahrhundert aus der Eremitage Sankt Petersburg, exhibition catalogue, Erbach, Deutschen Elfenbeinmuseum, 6 April 1993-6 January 1994, no. 5.
M. Y. Kryzhanovskaya, Ein gotisches Elfenbeinrelief in Darmstadt und das Problem der Lokalisierung, in Kunstin Hessen und am Mittelrhein, 34 (1994), p. 100.
M. Kryzhanovskaya, Western European Medieval Ivories. Catalogue of the Collection (Зaпaднoeврoпeйскaя рeзнaя кoстъ Срeдних вeкoв. Кataлoг кoллeкции), (Saint Peterburg, 2014), no. 117.