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Panels (fragment of a casket; coffret) (Back, panel 1)

Panels (fragment of a casket; coffret) (Back, panel 1)
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Front

Back, panel 3

Back

Front, panel 1

Front, panel 2

Back, panel 2

Front, panel 3

Subject
Secular.

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Oxford, Ashmolean Museum

Inv. AN2008.27

Metal (nails);ivory

Height: 50 mm (panel 2)
Width: 85 mm (panel 2)
Depth: 6 mm (all)

Panel 1
Courting couple (meeting of lovers); lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet. Lady charging with a flowery branch; knight in armour on horseback. Youth chucking his lover under the chin; trees.
Panel 2
Couple playing backgammon; youth holding a pair of gloves; trees.
Panel 3
Elopement; couple on horseback; knight in armour; monster on the horse’s head; castle; trees.

Warren 2014: France, c. 1300-1350.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Flat and smooth. Recessed along three edges (except the upper edge) to accommodate the other sides of the casket.

Object Condition
Holes for the missing fittings, showing traces of rust and oxidation.
Some holes are plugged with ivory.
A new strip of ivory reinforces the back of the two central scenes of panel 1.
Repair to the left edge and lower edge of panel 2. Right edge and lower edge of panel 3 repaired with strips of ivory.

Provenance
Collection of John Francis Mallett (bought from Brimo de Laroussilhe, Paris); his bequest to the Museum in 1947; Department of Western Art (WA1947.191.212); transferred to the Department of Antiquities in May 2008.

Bibliography
E. R. Standley, Trinkets and Charms: The use, meaning and significance of dress accessories, 1300-1700 (Oxford, 2013), pp. 41- 2, fig. 3.18.
N. Perkins and A. Wiggins, The Romance of the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2012), pp. 22-4, fig. 6.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, no. 162.


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