Provenance
The Jesuit Church at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, before 1900 [according to undated memo from John Maxon in curatorial file]. Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, 1900 [according to source cited above and Stonyhurst accession number, 00.13, on front of object and letter of 23 December 1969 from Ronald Lee to Richard Randall, copy in curatorial file]. Offered for sale, London, Sotheby's, 2 December 1969, lot 13, bought in and subsequently sold to Ronald A. Lee, London [according to letter cited above and email from Elizabeth Wilson, Sotheby's, 15 July, 2003, copy in curatorial file]; sold by Ronald A. Lee to the Art Institute, 1970.
Accession Number
33276
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
21.3 × 21.3 cm (8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Left wing: 21.1 × 10.6 cm (8 5/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Right wing: 21.3 × 10.6 cm (8 7/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
Classification
ivory
Credit Line
Kate S. Buckingham Endowment