Lot 663
A MEDIEVAL WALRUS IVORY DRAUGHTSMAN
carved to illustrate Aesop's fable of the Fox and the Stork within a foliate border, the sides with four small leafy medallions, probably Northern France, second half of the 12th century; 5.75 cms wide
Provenance:
By descent from the Rev. Dr. James Elwin Millard (1823-1894) in whose collection this piece was recorded in 1873. At that time a copy was made by the South Kensington (later Victoria and Albert) Museum, cat.no. 827, which is still in the museum's collection.
First published by I.O. Westwood in 1876 in the catalogue of Fictile Ivory Casts in the South Kensington Museum. Subsequently published by Adolph Goldschmidt in 1923, see p. 50, the piece at that time being recorded as lost.
