The museum itself describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", and the finest individual work of art in the wave of ivory sculpture coming out of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.
The museum's description portrays this as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", emphasizing its status as a masterpiece within the broader context of ivory sculpture emerging from Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.