[1] The triptych is made from three rectangular panels of elephant ivory and folds closed along two sets of three silver hinges.

[3] His arms appear within an image of Exeter Cathedral, in the psalter of which he was the second owner, now in the British Library as Add MS 21926.

[5] The coat of arms almost certainly means that this work of art was commissioned by Bishop Grandisson during his tenure.

[6] The Grandisson ivories in the Louvre and British Museum demonstrate iconographic features that suggest Italian influence and the style of paintings from the province of Siena in Tuscany.

[1] Prior to John Webb buying it on behalf of the British Museum in 1861, the triptych was in the possession of the Russian Prince Aleksey Saltykov.