Ivory Casket Panels

Description

Casket; one of four panels; ivory, carved in relief with the Judgement and Denial of St Peter: to the left, Pilate wearing a mantle is seated on a raised throne with high back, his hands over a basin into which an attendant pours water from a ewer; in the middle Christ carries his cross towards the right, urged forward by a soldier; to the right St Peter is seated on the ground before a brazier, above him on a bracket is a cock, and behind him the female servant pointing at him. COL: [MCB2161](http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?partId=1&objectId=60925)