Couple making a wreath by a flowery bush; lady crowning her kneeling lover with a chaplet; tree.
Corner terminals: four crouching monsters.
Griggs 1904-1907: France, 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Longhurst 1929: France, 1st half of the 14th century.
Williamson and Davies 2014: French (Paris), c. 1320.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Back turned with a depression for (missing) mirror.
Label with number '2003' from Salting Bequest.
Object Condition
Five parallel lines on the underside of the rim and shallow hole (later).
Provenance
Collection of Count Girolamo Possenti di Fabriano: sale, Florence, 1 April 1880, lot 35?. Collection of Émile Gavet: his sale, Paris, 31 May-9 June 1897, lot 330 (mirror image in the sale catalogue). Salting collection: bequeathed to the museum in 1910.
Bibliography
W. Griggs, Portfolio of Ivories [London, 1904-1907], pt. XXVII.
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910)/Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)', in List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture) (London, 1910), p. 93.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 379; II, no. 1003.
M. Longhurst, Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2 vols (London, 1927 and 1929), II (1929), p. 45, pl. XLIII.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), no. 199.
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