LOT DETAILS

Materials:

ivory

Measurements:

16.73 in. (42.50 cm.) (height)

Description:

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Markings:

with two old paper labels respectively inscribed in ink: 223 and 2.355

Exhibited:

London, South Kensington Museum (known today as The Victoria and Albert Museum), June 1862

Literature:

J. C. Robinson (ed.), Catalogue of the special exhibition of works of art of the mediaeval, renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum June 1862, exh. cat. Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum, London, 1863, no. 252

Provenance:

George Field collection, United Kingdom (recorded in 1862);; Christie's, London, 7 July 1987, lot 126;; on loan to Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, September 2009 to December 2012