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 describes it as "unquestionably the most beautiful piece of ronde-bosse [in the round] ivory carving ever made", highlighting its exceptional quality, which is characteristic of the artistic wave coming out of Paris in the 13th and 14th centuries.