Knight in armour on horseback; sword; shield.
Nickel 1969: English, c. 1370.
New York 1975: England (?), c. 1370.
Museum's opinion 2011: Western Europe (perhaps English), c. 1370- 1400.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Carved in the round.
Object Condition
Missing: lower part of the piece (?).
Provenance
Collection of Reverend John Eagles, Bristol. Collection of Victor Gay, Paris. Collection of John Hunt, Dublin. Purchased in 1968 thanks to the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Fund.
Bibliography
A. Way, 'Ancient Chessmen with Some Remark on Their Value as Illustrations of Medieval Costume', in Archaeological Journal III (1846).
J. Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe (Oxford and London, 1860). Accessible online through The Internet Archive: http://archive.org/stream/ancientarmouran01hewigoog#page/n8/mode/2up [accessed 30 July 2013).
H. Nickel, 'Sir Gawayne and the Three White Knights', in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 28 (December 1969), pp. 174-182.
D. A. Porter, Ivory Carvings in Later Medieval England 1200-1400 (unpublished PhD thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1974), no. 56.
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, no. 218.
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