Hawking party; lady and youth hawking on horseback; courting couple (meeting of lovers); youth chucking his lover under the chin; youth with a hawk on his wrist; lady with a whip; sword; trees.
Pointed trefoils. Border of dentils.
Westwood 1876 and Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, mid 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1340-50.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Reverse originally divided into 5 compartments, the central one being circular.
Object Condition
Raised ridges carefully removed on the back.
Provenance
In the possession of John Webb (b. 1799, d. 1880), London, by 1862: purchased from him by the Museum in 1867.
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent periods on loan at the South Kensington Museum, June 1862..., revised edition, exhibition catalogue (London, 1862), no.154.
Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, arranged according to the dates of their acquisition (London, 1868), I, p. 9.
W. Maskell, Ivories Ancient and Mediaeval in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1872), p. 95 (97?).
J. O. Westwood, Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum (London, 1876), no. 476 (`73.179).
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXVIII.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 437; II, no. 1194.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 51, pl. XLV.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 243.
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